Not all snails are created equal in your aquarium. In a spawning aquarium, snails have nothing to do at all, they eat eggs and fish larvae. In a general aquarium, hordes of snails can completely destroy aquatic plants. The most common problem for the aquarist is the proliferation of red horny coils or red fiza. You need to get rid of them periodically.
It is necessary
- -banana peel;
- - lettuce leaves;
- -bleaching powder;
- -battery 9-12 V;
- -wires;
- -copper wire:
- -Predatory fish: common macropod, tetradont and others.
Instructions
Step 1
There are several ways to get rid of snails. Large snails, such as ampullia, can be hand picked and transferred to another aquarium. The juveniles of these snails are also quite large, and the eggs are kept under the cover glass of the aquarium. A raspberry-like clutch is above the water. Remove it and discard it.
Step 2
Snails can be caught with bait. Use banana peels and lettuce as bait. Place the bait on the bottom of the aquarium. When the snails are collected on the bait, they are removed along with the skin or leaves. This procedure must be done several times at intervals of 3-4 days in order to remove not only large snails, but also recently hatched from eggs. In this case, it is not necessary to remove fish and plants from the aquarium.
Step 3
There is an electrical method for removing snails. Take 2 stranded copper wires. On one side, strip the ends in the form of panicles 3-5 cm. Connect the other ends to a battery with a voltage of 9-12 V. Dip the stripped ends into water on opposite sides of the aquarium for 2-3 minutes. The snails are dying. This method, despite its speed, has its drawbacks. First, many plants do not tolerate copper ions and may die. Secondly, it is not known for certain how this procedure works on fish, although some aquarists claim that it is harmless. Third, dead snails will still have to be manually removed from the tank. When they decompose, they will spoil the water.
Step 4
A radical method of dealing with snails is to remove all fish and plants from the aquarium. Destroy the plants. Replace the soil completely or boil it followed by rinsing. Disinfect the aquarium with bleach, rinse thoroughly and dry. Refill the aquarium with water. This method can only be used in small aquariums where biological equilibrium is quickly established and valuable plants are not available.
Step 5
The most effective and environmentally friendly method of dealing with snails is biological. Plant snail-infested aquariums as natural enemies. These are hungry adult macropods, large cichlids. Specialized mollusc-eaters - tetradonts - cope with this task better than others. Snail caviar is very good at destroying ancistrus. A pair of spawning cichlases or cancer will completely destroy all snails in a 100 liter tank in 2 days.
