My yoyo loaches ate the snails in my tank to extinction in record time,
but, since I wanted the snails for live food, I had to make a refugium to
protect the breeder snails.
And yoyos are great fun to watch, like fishy kittens (chasing, stalking,
sleeping in piles...on their sides and upside-down, etc). The situation is
a total win-win!


"linda mar" wrote in message
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Hi all,

yesterday, during my weekly tank maintenance, I saw a glob of snail eggs
on
my *tiny* newly sprouting crypt leaf.

since this particular crypt took a while to start producing leaves (was
suffering for a bit since it was too small), I didn't want to do what I
usually do with snail eggs.. just chop the green stuff that the eggs are
attached to it and throw it away.

I've tried pulling it off of the leaf, but it was so glued on, I coudln't
do
it without pulling out the plant from the gravel (it's a very small baby
plant).. so I ended up snipping the poor thing. it had two small
sprouting
leaves, now it only has one :-( and no other leaves (I hope this baby
survives!)

So, I was wondering, are there any other way to mechanically get rid of
the
snail eggs without sacrificing plant leaves or using chemicals? if the
eggs
were on some fast-growing stuff, or bushy plants, I probably would not
have
minded, but in this instance, it was painful to pinch what little green
that poor little plant had...

any insight is appreciated..

Linda