I like my snails :-/ and very little damage to my plants.

I've got apple snails, ramshorns and Malaysian Trumpet Snails in a small
tank, while I'm waiting for my 42 us gallon to cycle. and a random snail in
the large tank that hitched in on a plant and is now living through
horrendous fishless cycling conditions in the tank (ammonia now 0, nitrite
5.0 (max test will read))

Don't think I could bring myself to kill a snail, even if it were doing
damage (however having a fish that would is another matter, but at least
then it's food). I really am a wuss.

Claire

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"Troy Bruder" wrote in message
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I recently added a single new plant to my tank... Now, I'm infested
with
small snails... I'm sure they are eating my plants, so what's the
best
way
to get rid of them?

Thanks,
Troy

I added a yellow tailed botia because I was advised that he would eat
the snails and he wasn't as aggressive as clown loaches. Well I've
never seen that thing eat a snail since I've had him. I found that
the easiest way to get rid of those things is to wash your hands, and
stick your arm in the tank and pull the snails off the surface and
throw them in the trash. Do this every day or every other day for a
couple of weeks and you will notice a huge difference. In a thirty
gallon tank this should only take a few minutes each day.

Chris

And if following your advice, then when one gets up in
the morning to see their tank, they see dozens of snails
on the glass and plants, and they see work to do, and
they have work to do. Best to totally eradicate the pests.
Simply put, snails take joy away from the hobby. And
snails are costly in the damage they do to valuable plants.
-Daryl S. Kabatoff