what snails?

They are just pest snails, i have some in my tanks, for pests they are quite pretty!

I do love water snails though, my grand daughter looks in my tanks for them she says they are cute! mind you she loves my african land snails!

they are nicer than the normale pest snails and there fine in the breeding trap because there keeping it perfectly clean but i just dont what them to get into my tank.

theres loads now theres about 20 that are about a cm and loads of tiny tiny ones. theres still none in the tank though that are if they do get into the tank there getting eaten?

it may be they are getting eaten, or they are really good at hiding!! the fish that i know will eat them are loaches and puffers. there are probably more though.

really dont think there hiding i haven seen any on cucumber and the ones in the breeding trap are really active. im not sure if the apisto, angels or the catfish could be eating them.

ahh there pest snails! I couldnt stand them! they were all over my community and divided betta tanks. They breed proper rapidly too [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

I think i read that you want snails, in that case just feed them regularly.

But.... if/when you get fed up of them, feed your fish less. You will see the population dramatically reduce

i know what you mean about the breeding ive vent for 2 to about 22 in a few weeks.
i dont really want them but if they just stay in the breeding trap there fine because there doing a good job at cleaning up after the dirty fry :]
i cant really feed less or just one of the fry will eat it all and the others get bearly any.

ooo NO i found the first one in the tank today i squished it i hope theres not any more

for your sake i hope not but in reality there are probly many more in there hiding...sorry:(

same they have covered the breeding trap and i dont want the same in my tank. my angels where nipping at this one that how i noticed iit so hopefully if there are others or babies the angels will eat them.

I just throw my snails in the pond! on cucumber subject do bettas like it? Mine dont even eat real weed!

im not sure if bettas would like cucumber?

i dont know about males but i thik they would be the same as fmales and when i used to have females in the 30g they used to nip at it when i put it in for that catfish but could never really get any off.

theres about 40 snails now. i put them in one of them little blue plastic tanks today because the fry where getting to big for the breeding traps so ive divided a 10g and have the males in one side and females in the other. flip i can see what you mean about the snails ive been sitting there watching them and there quite intresting to watch. ive got more respect for them now lol i still couldnt have a 55g tank full of them but i might use a 3g tank i have in the garage for them and let my little bros look after them.
this is the tank there in at the moment

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and this is the frys new tank. its not very good and i dont normally like useing ornaments but i got all of these free with the new tank so thought i would just use them for now
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lol! im glad you see how interesting they are! as for the 55g i suppose i am just my own brand of crazy your new fry set up looks nice! you cant beat free stuff!

lol
My lil brother has been watching them for about the last half hour now ive never seen him so quite lol he seems to like them

hehe i can sit and watch them for hours if the boys gave me the time! they love to watch them! my tanks are my babysitters

Just to warn you, when you squish pest snails they release more eggs so you end up with hundreds more for the sake of squishing one. The best way if you spot some you want to kill is to scoop them out and put them in boiling water.

thats some good info there! i never thought of that. course the only pest snails i have are MTS that i put in my tanks with sand. but i know a lot of people who squish the other kind!! thanks crystal

luckly i havent squished any yet thaanks for the warning