I've been fighting a war in this tank, it's a 90 gallon freshwater, against what i can only surmise is rabbit snail and their brood. I've removed a shit ton of adults and did my due diligence on eradication and/or relocation to friends who want some. Is there any way to wipe out these pests from this tank without harming my fish? Or is this a fight that will continue unless the tank is changed?
Posted by DiamondGekko
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i’ve been fighting this battle too, commenting in hopes i get a solution too, just keep crushing them and don’t give OP they aren’t infinite
Those are probably Malaysian trumpet snails. Some assassin snails or pea puffers are the most effective.
Control the tank feeding, either fish, shrimp food, as long as they see extra food they will populate, mine reached a brutal amount. So I reduced the fish and shrimp food by half, took some snails by hand and put them in another tank, and now they dont reproduce as much, as they dont find that much to eat, just enough.
So, dont overfeed, or control the leftovers.
Or add a couple of assasin snails, they willl control the populations.
Rabbit Snails get rather large and their reproduction is comparatively slow. Those look like Malaysian Trumpet Snails. The methods of eradication are probably the same. Traps, large food attractants removed every day, or assassin snails are some options. Lots of info on this sub or Google already.
I would try to live with them personally. If thats out of the question kill as many as you can. Put something like zucchini on the bottom and remove it once a bunch are attached. You could also add some kind of livestock that eats them. I had a really nice population of mts going, like probably 200 and i added a crayfish. I dont know how but that crayfish managed to kill almost every single snail in my tank. Completely eradicated the mts but i found 2 bladder snails still alive