Snail Infestation?
 

Is there a reef safe fish, that will help control my snail problem? i have thousands of baby snails, and when lights go out they all come alive and cover my tank.

what kind of snails are they??? personally i like snails and think they are great for cleaning but any snowflae eels i had would make quick work of any snail or cran that hit my tank with him i could never have any snails or crabs.....some of my other eels didnt care for snails though and they do find a taste for small fish later.



the best answer would be to just scoop them out manually every night when they are active...eventually you should make a dent in their population:) cheers!!



***** edit**** reefsafe fish that eats snails arent really reefsafe then are they lol???:):) cheers:)

i have alot of babies to and baby starfish but if they arnt there during the day does it really matter? if they are still covering the glass during the day i would get rid of them just scoop them out

they are there in the day also. Its not that i don't like them, its there is so many of them and they are on everything including my corals i,m sure there not hurting anything but it just looks ugly.

ya i guess not ..:lol:

you can use a spoon to scrape them off the glass if you dont want to touch them... thats how i get them out of my overflow... also if you just want to kill them and make a fish snack, just run your magfloat over the glass when they are on them...

There probably not babies there asterna starfish(sp) and the snails are harmless too . I cycle between snail and starfish outbreaks , one day theres none the next theres hundreds then none again for a while . It will balance out soon enough .

They are probably colonista snails. They are harmless and would be a clean up crew.

Chris

cool well i wont worry about them then.
thanks you guys.

I wish you were closer I would take a few(100+) for sure :smile:

I would suggest to keep them as they are great for clean up, however a Cuban Hogfish or Checkerboard Wrasse, in my experience, would wipe them out in a few days :mrgreen:

Cool thanks man, i will look into those fish.:biggrin:

Hi,

Just remember, when the snails are gone the cleaning is up to you, or what's left of the clean up crew.

In my opinion a clean up crew is very important, especially in a closed system :smile:

Very true thanks again.