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Aquarium Snails
How to Prevent Aquarium Snails from entering the aquarium

When one snail can rapidly become many, it is vitally important to prevent even one snail making itself feel at home in your aquarium. Unfortunately, it is remarkably difficult to spot baby snails or snails eggs and even the most vigilant efforts can be undone by a failure to spot just one bay snail hiding in a plant. It is also very difficult to stop them breeding out of control but not impossible if you are wise to the causes of snail infestations.

Biological control of Aquarium Snails involves introducing snail-hungry predators into your aquarium to prey upon the snail population. Of course, you should only attempt this if the predators you choose are compatible with the other fish and invertebrates in your aquarium, but providing they are compatible, this method is not only the most effective, but also requires considerably less effort. Not all snail-eating species are easy to keep and many have specific requirements or grow quite large, so make sure you research beyond their snail-ravenous qualities. Effective fish species for controlling or even eliminating snail populations include many loaches such as the clown loach or puffer fish, both of which have very specific requirements.

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Pest snails
Baiting and trapping

A manual yet effective means for removing not all but many of your Pest snails is to leave a piece of lettuce or cucumber in your aquarium overnight. Snails love eating these foods and will cover the surface of your bait vegetable the next morning. With many snails in one place, all you have to do is pick out the bait and your snails will have no choice but to enjoy their ride out of your tank. After this point it’s up to you how you dispose of them, although I would suggest putting them in a pond where they can be eaten by large goldfish and carp rather than thinking up ways to kill the off.

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