Advice needed: snails vs. copper strips
 

Have you had success 'controlling' snails with copper strips? What
products, techniques, placement, barrier design etc. have you tried? Have
you used bulk copper foil (alloy 110) from suppliers like McMaster-Carr
and/or found an optimum thickness and width? Do you know the thickness of
Snail-Barr? Any advice/info is appreciated.

Advice needed: snails vs. copper strips
 

I seem to remember an article years ago on using copper strips and running a
low current though them sort of like an electric fence.Cant remember where i
read it though
i use foil just household grade aroung good plants with kitty litter spread
around the pot in a circle.Snails and slugs cant cross this without
inflicting themselves permanant harm!
STUART
"lko" wrote in message
news:H6_la.432369$F1.63489@sccrnsc04...
Have you had success 'controlling' snails with copper strips? What
products, techniques, placement, barrier design etc. have you tried?
Have
you used bulk copper foil (alloy 110) from suppliers like McMaster-Carr
and/or found an optimum thickness and width? Do you know the thickness of
Snail-Barr? Any advice/info is appreciated.

Advice needed: snails vs. copper strips
 

I understood that just plain bare copper was toxic as there will always be
coppers salts and oxides on the surface of the metal which they can't take.
This is similar to the old aquarium trick of adding a copper coin to kill
water snails or leeches, (and often the fish as well in acid water
conditions).
Adding electricity into the equation is just getting messy. I am quite sure
they don't like an electrical current through them! Surely it is better to
just dust down a copper salt barrier if you insist on being different or
better still to use slug pellets of the Metaldehyde type.



"lko" wrote in message
news:H6_la.432369$F1.63489@sccrnsc04...
Have you had success 'controlling' snails with copper strips? What
products, techniques, placement, barrier design etc. have you tried?
Have
you used bulk copper foil (alloy 110) from suppliers like McMaster-Carr
and/or found an optimum thickness and width? Do you know the thickness of
Snail-Barr? Any advice/info is appreciated.