I’ve just found baby bumblebee snails in my tank can someone tell me of a way i can get rid of them?!
Sorry not bumblebees. They are sundials… maybe Collonistas? I’ll post a picture soon.
i hate to be “that guy”, but they r normally pretty slow… i have even been able to catch some TURBO snails by hand! Saint:)
Haha, so is that what it is? Collonista? I pray it isn’t a sundial.
Do you have a second image? There is a similar snail that is harmless. Usually only comes out a night time. I am 90% sure it is not sundial. For time being you could manually remove them when you find them and put them in a glass of tank water with no heater or water movement and typically snails of that size will survive a month that way.
Two thins I have noticed. Sundails spend 99% of their time in zoas or palys. The good type of snail will spend 90% of the day in hiding under rocks and will appear on the glass right around when the lights go off.
Oh and if they are sundials I think they can pretty easily be removed by hand. They seem to latch on to the zoas some how with like a string.
I do have another picture around here somewhere… And yes these are only out at night and they are very small. I found a picture online of a Collonista snail and it look practically the same as mine. Here is that other picture along with the picture I found online. The first is my snail and the second is the one I’ve picked up online.
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i hate to be “that guy”, but they r normally pretty slow… i have even been able to catch some TURBO snails by hand! Saint:)[/quote]
Lol
The difference is in the “flap” that covers the opening on the shell. Flip it over and post a pic of the underside. If it is pointy, then it’s a sundial.
Stolen photo:
When I get home I will.
problem here is, most likely any type of control u use (be it a natural predator, or chemically) is gonna kill off all your other snails and most likely any other inverts in the tank… so regardless, i dont see much hope for control other than “picking” them out 1 by 1.
a nice pair of tweezers!
I figured as much. I would never use copper on my tank or any other kind of chemicals besides supplements, too dangerous I think.
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I figured as much. I would never use copper on my tank or any other kind of chemicals besides supplements, too dangerous I think.[/quote]
Good call as far as I’m concerned and as far as the supplements go I always say don’t dose it unless you have a test kit for it or understand exactly what it is doing and the repercussions of overdosing.
You deside what you have is safe?