Re: Snail Infestation
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Originally Posted by WhiteGloveAquatics
I bought 6 Helena's once, one ended up being a cannibal and wiped out the other helena's and my pond snails still populate.
In my 210 i started to get a pond snail explosion, used the framing of a powered sponge filter to nab them. tried uplift tube with a funnel in the tip, got 6. I have 5 yo-yo loaches and 4 banjo cats, the amount of empty shells daily blew away what the traps caught.
The 20oz bottle trick works great, I suggest putting algae wafers and fresh blanched vegetation in there zuch's work awesome as does romaine lettuce.
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excellent tactic. will try that. courgette/zuccetti in a jar and pull them out like that. brilliant. thanks fellow human 
  
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60 liter - Bronze, Habrosus and Panda Corys, Rasbora Maticulas, Neon Tetras, Marbled Hatchet fish, dwarf cherry, rhino and amano shrimp, assassin snails and damned pond snails
54 liter - Dwarf Redtailed Puffers, Garra Rufas and Garra Gotyla and more pond snails
45 liter - Still cycling. Crustations and Molluscs only
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