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An explosion of snails often means you're feeding too much, or the tank is otherwise a bit dirty. Personally I don't see the issue with them, all they do is help clean up waste and algae.

Feed a bit less, and take them out by hand if you really don't like the look of them (you can bait a jam jar with a bit of lettuce or something to get loads at once).

I certainly wouldn't go pumping chemicals into your tank to try and get rid of them. Lots of rotting snails will do bad things to your water quality, and it could cause problems down the road if you ever want to keep shrimp or other inverts.
 
is it OK for me to leave a dead fish in my tank for the other fish to eat? I have about 50+ guppys so it doesn't take them long to finish one off.

Edit: googled it and removed the dead fish.
 
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Magic_x_uk said:
guys give me some advice here please.

I have a small ish tank (tropical) NOT added anything in months to it, ie fish, ornaments, plants etc. But suddenly I am getting a hell of a lot of snails, tiny round ones, cone shaped ones.

Why?
and how do I sort this problem out, there seems to be getting more and more each day I think.

thank you
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When I had a snail problem the most humane way and best method to not mess up your water parameters etc is to get 1 or 2 Assassin Snails which will soon sort out your snail problem. Adding chemicals in to kill snails will leave all the dead snails rotting in your tank.
 
Yo-Yo and Zebra Loaches are also good snail eaters. Couple of them sorted my problem out within a week. Kinda missed the crunching noises from the tank in the dark when they were eradicated!
 
The other trick I've heard is to hang a large lettuce leaf in the corner of the tank at night. It will attract the snails overnight, then chuck it away in the morning snails and all.

Doesn't solve the ongoing problem as the blighters lay eggs everywhere, hence the loaches in my case. I'd rather use them as a food source instead of medicating/poisoning the whole tank.
 
My Zebra Loach ate up all the snails :) I removed 200-300 snails over the period of about 2 months, with 2 full complete clean-outs of the tank, they kept coming back! Added the Zebra Loach and a few days later I was left with a load of shells to fish out and that was the end of them :)
 
After having kept tropical fish for many years I have decided to make a move into Marine. As we are renting and will be moving at some point this year I decided to go small and simple, so I introduce to you the microhabitat by aquahabitats: available here

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Bought a 5 gallon jerrycan of the fishshops salt water to make life easier as well as to make the transition from any of their tanks to mine as simple as possible.

Obviously due to its size this will contain no fish, however I am looking forward to bringing some sexy shrimp into the tank once its settled.

Total costs were:

Tank £100
Jerrycan £9.99
FS Salt Water 5 gallon @ £1.29 per gallon
Coral sand 3kg £3.99
Live rock 2 Kg @ £12.99 per kilo

The tank was very straightforward to set up and runs silently. Skimmer took a little adjusting but its running great now.

Will post updates as the tank matures and carry out a full review if anyone is interested.
 
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King85 said:
You could have a small goby in there, a coral goby or the like.
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True enough - the guy I was talking to had said one of his other customers had done that. Will need to see how the corals and invertebrates get on when they are added.
 
Note to self: Before emptying 90% of your (fortunately unstocked) 240l tank, check that your garden hose isn't frozen.

Someone's going to be schlepping from the kitchen with a bucket!
 
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