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OT snail control, was What I Did This Morning
"Dunter Powries" wrote in message ... NetMax wrote in message .. . Regarding this gadget, does anyone have positive experience with it. To Dunter, after you have laboriously removed every duckweed you find, my experience is that there is always one more hiding somewhere, in a filter pipe, under a leaf etc... Oh, yes. This is NOT the first time I've performed this excercise. Check again in about 1 week, to prevent the next onslaught. It usually takes more than one episode of mechanical removal to truly make your tank duckweed-free. Even though it's a nuisance, I wish I could get rid of my snails as easily. Is there some magic potion I could put in which would make all my snails float to the surface where I could pick them off like duckweed? *humour* Lettuce works for me in my open tanks. Just put a leaf of lettuce in every night and remove it every morning. Depending on the variety of snail, it should clean out the tank in a couple of weeks. snip I hadn't tried the lettuce trick in a long time, but I must have either the wrong types of snails, or they didn't like Romaine lettuce, or the tank plants taste better, because only 2 snails were on the Romaine leaf in the morning. I try to avoid loaches as they disrupt my more delicate plants (ie: Riccia on driftwood), and I have the impression that they would eat any fry they could (they are opportunistic carnivores). Of the loaches, the Yoyos seem to be the least 'carnivorous' but my one test sample has been ineffective on these snails after 2 months. Rather than buying more (for a shoal), I'm going to try a Zebra or Chain loach next. Plan C is do drop a Julidochromis into the tank. I think these guys are insectivores. Catching him later will be an adventure, though. NetMax |
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NetMax wrote in message
.. . "Dunter Powries" wrote in message ... NetMax wrote in message .. . Regarding this gadget, does anyone have positive experience with it. To Dunter, after you have laboriously removed every duckweed you find, my experience is that there is always one more hiding somewhere, in a filter pipe, under a leaf etc... Oh, yes. This is NOT the first time I've performed this excercise. Check again in about 1 week, to prevent the next onslaught. It usually takes more than one episode of mechanical removal to truly make your tank duckweed-free. Even though it's a nuisance, I wish I could get rid of my snails as easily. Is there some magic potion I could put in which would make all my snails float to the surface where I could pick them off like duckweed? *humour* Lettuce works for me in my open tanks. Just put a leaf of lettuce in every night and remove it every morning. Depending on the variety of snail, it should clean out the tank in a couple of weeks. snip I hadn't tried the lettuce trick in a long time, but I must have either the wrong types of snails, or they didn't like Romaine lettuce, or the tank plants taste better, because only 2 snails were on the Romaine leaf in the morning. I try to avoid loaches as they disrupt my more delicate plants (ie: Riccia on driftwood), and I have the impression that they would eat any fry they could (they are opportunistic carnivores). Of the loaches, the Yoyos seem to be the least 'carnivorous' but my one test sample has been ineffective on these snails after 2 months. Rather than buying more (for a shoal), I'm going to try a Zebra or Chain loach next. Plan C is do drop a Julidochromis into the tank. I think these guys are insectivores. Catching him later will be an adventure, though. I've had some very bad experiences with loaches and botias in the planted tank! The only loach I've found that have been 100% effective and non-troublesome have been 'horsehead' loaches - I don't know the Latin, but they look like stretched-out seahorses. They don't actually eat the snails but they do eat every bit of snail spawn. They've never eaten any of my fry that I've been aware of. They bury themselves in the sand like eels. Entire months go by that I don't even see one. |
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NetMax wrote in message
.. . "Dunter Powries" wrote in message ... NetMax wrote in message .. . Regarding this gadget, does anyone have positive experience with it. To Dunter, after you have laboriously removed every duckweed you find, my experience is that there is always one more hiding somewhere, in a filter pipe, under a leaf etc... Oh, yes. This is NOT the first time I've performed this excercise. Check again in about 1 week, to prevent the next onslaught. It usually takes more than one episode of mechanical removal to truly make your tank duckweed-free. Even though it's a nuisance, I wish I could get rid of my snails as easily. Is there some magic potion I could put in which would make all my snails float to the surface where I could pick them off like duckweed? *humour* Lettuce works for me in my open tanks. Just put a leaf of lettuce in every night and remove it every morning. Depending on the variety of snail, it should clean out the tank in a couple of weeks. snip I hadn't tried the lettuce trick in a long time, but I must have either the wrong types of snails, or they didn't like Romaine lettuce, or the tank plants taste better, because only 2 snails were on the Romaine leaf in the morning. I try to avoid loaches as they disrupt my more delicate plants (ie: Riccia on driftwood), and I have the impression that they would eat any fry they could (they are opportunistic carnivores). Of the loaches, the Yoyos seem to be the least 'carnivorous' but my one test sample has been ineffective on these snails after 2 months. Rather than buying more (for a shoal), I'm going to try a Zebra or Chain loach next. Plan C is do drop a Julidochromis into the tank. I think these guys are insectivores. Catching him later will be an adventure, though. I've had some very bad experiences with loaches and botias in the planted tank! The only loach I've found that have been 100% effective and non-troublesome have been 'horsehead' loaches - I don't know the Latin, but they look like stretched-out seahorses. They don't actually eat the snails but they do eat every bit of snail spawn. They've never eaten any of my fry that I've been aware of. They bury themselves in the sand like eels. Entire months go by that I don't even see one. |
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OT snail control, was What I Did This Morning
"NetMax" wrote in message
.. . Thanks Michi, but in my case, I'm not so sure that an African butterfly would be too happy in my 8.4pH ;~) Oops, no, probably not :-) I keep mentioning Anomalochromis Thomasi for snail control simply because it seems to be a very-well kept secret; I've never seen them mentioned in the litature or elsewhere. I got mine on recommendation from my LFS, and the tip was spot-on. So, I'm just trying to spread the gospel :-) Cheers, Michi. -- Michi Henning Ph: +61 4 1118-2700 ZeroC, Inc. http://www.zeroc.com |
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