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Originally Posted by KS Smitty
Speaking of snails...we have a pair of Apple Snails that have laid eggs twice but neither batch has hatched. They lay their eggs above the water level and we have made sure that when doing water changes/adding water (this time of year we get a lot of evaporation) that they remain above the water level but no babies. Is there something we're doing wrong?
We have a yoyo loach in our 49g tall tank and even though he does pig out on the flakes that we feed the other fish in the tank he still loves to dig around in the gravel and eat the ramshorn snails too.
An easy way to trap unwanted snails is to use a plastic soda/water bottle with an algae wafer in it, the snails will crawl into it (maybe some fish too) and you just take it out and let them dry out, or crush them and feed them back to the fishies.
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That's great advice w/ the container/algae wafer. I have 100's of pond snails in my 5g Red Cherry Shrimp tank. When they start to get out of hand, I do the container/algae wafer trick. I then float the container in my 55g and release a few each day for my Clown Loaches, (I now have 3-picked up 2 little ones last weekend).
I actually like the pond snails, (they're fun to watch), but can reproduce very quickly. In the Spring, I place a bunch of them in my pond and they keep the algae down quite a bit.