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Curse the little hitch-hikers!!! (a snail invasion is begining)

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#1 ·
Hi.

I was enjoying watching my tetras, cories, and my new ghost shrimp swim around the tank. It is late right now. To my terrible dismay I saw a single snail crawling up the glass.:shock: ! Where on earth did this guy come from!? Must have been from some plants I got earlier this month. I checked the gravel from the tank it was in for snails, but the snails, being nocternal, must have hid too well.

How long before they take over? What can I do to stop them? I have seen 3 so far. I think if I put a piece of lettuce out, the ghost shrimp would slap the snails off all night (Kingston is Obsessed with slapping other fish over food). I can try it anyway, though.

It is my fully planted QT. I should have the fish out soon. I can move the GS over also. Will copper-based snail-killer injure the plants (anacharis, aponogeton, hornwort)? What about assassin snails? I have only read briefly over the topic of AS. Will they have a good effect on the invasive snail population? Will they damage the plants?

"I will never get a snail infestation, I will always check plants for snails".
It happened. Silly me. Pride comes before the snails completely infest my tank.:roll:

Tank stats;
Nitrates; 35ppm
Ammonia; 0ppm
Fish; 5 Lemon Tetra, 3 Corydoras (adding more soon)
Invert; 1 ghost shrimp, ? unknown species of snail
Size; 10g
Filteration; Carbon wo/ the carbon
Oldest member; Added June 15th (the day the tank started)
Current Diesases; none
Lighting; 15W 9350k (soon to change to 6500k)
Substrate; Gravel

Thanks for any info on the extermination!:-D
 
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#33 ·
Figured I'd add to your topic instead of creating a new one! I'm having a similar problem, only my Amazon Swords are chewed to pieces by these guys. I've found 3 different looking types so far. A swirled shelled snail, a seemingly spotted shell, and a white pointed shell. Pictures follow. Any identifications would be appreciated.


 
#34 ·
Looks like maybe rammies and MTS? Hard to tell. I got rid of my hitch-hikers (actually, I put them in another tank). It wasn't diffecult, but I removed them at a very early stage. The bottom feeders 4 cories, 1 or 2 Ghost shrimp (with occasional help from the lemon tetra) really keep the nitrates from rising (along with my massive army of hornwort and anacharis) and less food for the rammies.

All my MTS disappeared! Were did they go? It is a 5g soil substrate tank, why/how did they disappear?
 
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