Katherine Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 We just got some mystery snails last weekend and I know the importance of feeding them their own food, not just algae and what the fish miss. My question is how do you do this without giving bladder snails an all you can eat buffet? Or will I basically need to give up on controlling them by controlling the amount of available food and just remove a bunch periodically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xXInkedPhoenixX Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 The simple answer @Katherine, sadly you really can't. So yes, controlling food and more likely removing excess snails is in your future. Unless someone here has come up with something I haven't heard of before! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnebuns Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 You just described my worst nightmare. I keep 4 different types of snails and 3 in the same tank. One of my biggest fears is getting pond or bladder snails because of this reason. I'm sorry I can't think of a solution for you short of putting the mystery snails in a different tank or starting new. I do know there are some ways to trap pest snails to thin the population. You can simply put down a piece of cucumber and pick up what gathers around it. There's also ways of making a trap out of a water bottle. I tried to find a video to show how to make it but I couldn't find anything. It's 4am and I'm too tired to words for describing it. Maybe I can try tomorrow or someone else knows of a video. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnebuns Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 This isn't what I was describing but this seems legit too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I made a snail trap out of a glass spice bottle that has holes in the plastic lid sized for things like red pepper flakes or parmesan cheese to come out of. Mystery snails cannot get into it, but small pest snails and baby ramshorns can. I put some shrimp food or algae wafer in the bottle, leave it over night, remove it in the AM and relocate the snails to a tank where I am not feeding mystery snails. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted May 29, 2022 Author Share Posted May 29, 2022 On 5/29/2022 at 6:53 PM, PineSong said: I made a snail trap out of a glass spice bottle that has holes in the plastic lid sized for things like red pepper flakes or parmesan cheese to come out of. Mystery snails cannot get into it, but small pest snails and baby ramshorns can. I put some shrimp food or algae wafer in the bottle, leave it over night, remove it in the AM and relocate the snails to a tank where I am not feeding mystery snails. That is a great idea. I think I threw one of those out this week. 🤦♀️ I'm sure I'll have another empty soon enough. I'm not actually overpopulated yet, just trying to plan ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted May 29, 2022 Share Posted May 29, 2022 I got the idea from a video but was too lazy to go find the video and post the link! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted May 30, 2022 Author Share Posted May 30, 2022 On 5/29/2022 at 6:57 PM, PineSong said: I got the idea from a video but was too lazy to go find the video and post the link! Haha! Not sure I need a whole video for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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