Searched before sending and nothing really fit and hoping for some advice. I have 4 tanks: 94g, 36g and 20g x2. The snails started in 1 tank and have infested all of them. There are several thousands of them between all my tanks. They are about the size of the end of a pin, so super tiny.
I want to get rid of them but nothing helps, i have added bleach and lots of salt to no avail. So finally i broke down my 1 of my 20g, bleached it with boiling water as well as my sponge filters. I left them in the bleach for a week. I put it back together without substrate as i didn't want to end up with the same problem. Glad i did it that way as they are back, not sure how as i used new hoses and new cleaning equipment and they came back. I really don't want to buy new filters, even though i love Aquarium Co-op i can't afford to purchase everything all over again. Plus replace all the media filter in my FX4 and Oase filters as well....that is a huge expense.
Not sure what type they are as the never get bigger than that tiny one in the picture. I thought they might be trumpet but those get big, these are not. I even removed all the fish from the other 20g and stopped adding food about 6month ago as they are still going strong. Note, the picture with the scrubber, all those dots are the snails in question....it is just a fraction of the snails. So not dots, snails and that is the small side of the tank, now think of that being everywhere all over everything, i mean there are thousands of them and i am sure more than that from what i can't see.
Not sure what to do and have been trying to control get rid of them for well over a year. This is causing me to want to sell everything and get out of the hobby that i have loved for almost 20 years. I am in tears over this, if anyone can offer help i would be greatly appreciate it.
TIA Jenni.