Went snailing in the 100g

[Misty]

:eek:

I got about 63 of them in 15 minutes. Fixing to go in there with some lettuce and see what i can find...

How often should I do a snail sweep? The largest tonight was about the size of a lemon seed, could anybody use some snails, lol?

[poel_19]

hopefully you diddn't do this dangerous act one hour after you ate......the cramps are killers!!

[Misty]

:D Nope, no cramps! Didn't even have to deal with the fish...once I had my googlers and flippers on and started to climb in, the fish were gone! I'm thinking that might be due to all the displaced water though.:wha:

[biggin]

What kind of snails?

[Misty]

The brown sort of pointy shelled ones. I never can remember the name but they aren't ramshorn.

[poel_19]

trumpet snails???? do you just kill them, or feed them to a pack of killer loaches??

[biggin]

Pointed? Like a waffle cone? or more rounded?

Feed the trumpets to loaches.... From what I have read everyone says they are too hard for puffers. Mine will not touch them.

[poel_19]

A crushed shell is no defense against a hungry puffer....

[biggin]

Even crushed mine will not touch the Trumpets. Actually the new small one might but the older one will not, I have not brought any around since I got the new puffer.

[AndrewH]

Actually, I bought some plants from a guy and had 20-30 snails within 1 week.

I love 'em. If you need to get rid of them let me know I'll take me.

Do they look like this?
http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/img/Melanoides_tuberculata_1.jpg
or this?
http://www.snailshop.ashopcommerce.co.uk/pictures/1431/4/466834-1.jpg

[Misty]

They're more like the top one, maybe more brown than that. I have a bowl with about 60 in it. Snail poop everywhere!:twitch:

We bought a zebra loach tonight so maybe I won't have to do anymore sweeps, lol.

[AndrewH]

They're both the same type of snail MTS, just different individual colors ;)

Let me know how that loach works out. I want to know if (s)he gets 'em all, or just helps control their population.