Regarding some java moss

[hayden]

Joeri,
While In my local shop today a found a product called Had-a-snail. I don't know of its availibility in Belgium, but its supposed to kill most common snails in freshwater aquariums. Im guessing mud snails are included in that. Good Luck with your snail problem

 

[joeri]

I'm not to keen on products that kill one organic life form and are suposed to leave others unharmed. Can't help but think that the newts live in a toxic environment than. How healthy can that be for sensitive
amphibia?

Maybe I could use such a product in a bucket with the plants in or so.
Tnx for the advice anyway

Joeri

 

[ken]

My ramshorn snails just laid their second batch of eggs since I got them. They seem to leave the water and head up to my waterfall and lay them in the rocks that form the falls. I just pick them off when they get big enough and transfer them to a small critter keeper before giving them to friends.

I've also seen my FBN Lenny eat them when they're small. He's actually doing a pretty good job of keeping the population down and I'm sure the calcium from the shells is good for him too

Any thoughts on that?

 

[jesper]

Yeah, Lenny is one tough C.orientalis

I'm not sure how big these are, but are you sure he eats the shell?
I'm not sure there's enough acid in the belly of one orientalis to digest a snail shell, it might get stuck in the intestine.

My Paramesotriton eat snails but they take them out of the shells somehow... Maybe they gobble up the small ones whole, I dont know.

 

[ken]

They're just tiny, barely bigger than a pencil point. Once they get to the point where I can pick them up with my fingers I remove them from the tank otherwise I'd be overrun.

I can't say for sure that he eats the shell since they're so tiny though.

 

[edward]

I wouldn't worry about a newt ingesting a snail that small.

Ed

 

[pamela]

Regarding snail control on plants. Put the plants in a separate container of 1 tbls Alum to 1 gal water. Soak for 1 - 2 days. Alum will pickle any organisms carried on the plant. Rinse the plants extremely well before putting them back in the tank. Fish people do this all the time - but, I would check with others on this forum if they have used this method for plants that will go back into the newt tank. (Even I want to know.)

 

[joeri]

And the ideas just keep coming

I'm sure I'll get rid of them now. Thanks all.

Btw - I haven't seen my pleuro's attack any snails (yet), but I have a very dense planted area, so who knows what happens in there?

Joeri

 

[jesper]

Nope I wouldn't worry about such small snails being eating with shells either.

I don't get much snail reproduction in my tanks, are you sure you are not overfeeding? I mean the algae content and decaying organic matter can only support a so big population of snails - Isn't it better to attack the problem from that angle?
Otherwise the snails will probably just keep coming back.

 

[jesper]

Joeri - Try starving the pleuros for a while

Then they will take care of the problem for you.

(Message edited by Jesper on December 13, 2004)

 

[joeri]

I don't overfeed, but the part between the plants could use some cleaning indeed. A lot of dead leaves and a bit algae too

*runs off to tank in cleaning mood*