Fish and snails are two of the most common types of pets. Both are relatively easy to care for and can provide hours of enjoyment. The first step is to find a container that will fit snugly against the side of your aquarium. A cup or jar works well for this purpose. Once you have your container, drill or poke a small hole in the bottom. The next step is to bait your trap. Snails are attracted to both fresh and saltwater, so you can use either to bait your trap. You must find out why you had an algae overgrowth in the first place. If you don’t get rid of the cause, there is no point in getting rid of the consequence. The usual reason behind this is too much light, too high water temperature, and infrequent water changes.

Bladder and ramshorn snails lay egg sacs that contain multiple babies, whereas Malaysian trumpet snails give birth to live young. If anything else, snails will hate the smell of vinegar! They’ll do all they can to get away from it, and this can include coming out in the open. This can help you take them out of the tank using other methods. Yarbrough says unwanted snails are stowaways that usually arrive with new live plants or fish. They even hitchhike on driftwood, gravel and fish feces. They can enter as eggs, babies or full-grown adults. Author’s note: It’s not uncommon for snail-eating fish to seem disinterested in eating snails at first. If you notice this, try squishing a few snails inside the fish tank, using your fingers. This may pique the interest of your predator fish and spark its appetite for the remaining snails. While this quarantine plan is not bulletproof, we recommend taking a slow and steady approach rather than using chemical treatments like bleach or aquarium salt. It can be difficult to find an exact dosing concentration that is strong enough to kill snails and snail eggs but won’t harm more sensitive plants like vallisneria or cryptocoryne plants.

Method #3: Snail Trap

And while it’s a viable way to fix a snail infestation, things are a bit more complicated than that. Before introducing a predator fish for snail control, you will want to do enough research to ensure that the new fish you bring in is compatible with the ones you already have in your tank. To this end I am not adding fertiliser to my tank today and yesterday, and then I am going to reduce the amount I add daily. Hopefully this will help with the algae and grow frogbit roots.

After the rinse, soak it in a different container with water and add a dechlorinating water conditioner. Wait for 5 minutes for the dechlorinator to do its job. If you have a plague of stubborn snails, it’s often easier to manage the population than eradicate them altogether. Thankfully, there are safe and natural methods you can use. “It may take a while, but you can greatly reduce their numbers with some patience and diligence,” Yarbrough says. 1. Manually remove snails

Method #1: Less Food

Also, most chemicals will kill other intervertebral pets, such as shrimp. Take your blue tiger shrimp out on time! However, the shrimp and fish you receive may be discolored and the reason of this issue is strong vibration during transportation and they're not be fed during the transport period While chemicals are effective, I would use them with caution. Copper sulfate is toxic to plants, as well, so you will likely kill them together with unwanted snails.