snails are gone

[fshfrk]

Had MTS bad in the 210gal with the polodon petro's. could not take it anymore so I dumped in a 4 oz bottle of mardels copper safe. Next morning no snails.It's been 3 days. I know they are in their hiding and dieing. Going to test for ammonia tonight. Skip w/c tomorrow and do one sat 75%. Add another 1/2 bottle of copper safe. do a w/c next week and carbon. It's so nice not seeing them! HOPE THIS WORKS I HATE MTS.

[phish]

You add that copper safe with the fish in it?

[Mzungu]

Are you skipping WCs in order to not deplete the copper safe?

There's most likely a massacre going on...lots o' dead snails. I wouldn't skimp on the water changes. But, it's good that you're testing for ammonia. Can you test for nitrite, too? Since you have some awesome filtration on that tank, the ammonia might be converted fairly quickly. I'd test for nitrates and nitrites, too, just in case.

[fshfrk]

yea I better test it all. I don't know how fast they die but they sure are hiding good. I thought this would take a couple of weeks at least. I really don't know so it's kind of a experiment for me. But if they go I'm happy! Ask geoff to post I know he's done this.

[fshfrk]

phish yes fish are in the tank. Some very valuable fish.

[phish]

Im starting to get a couple here and there, i picked them out as i see them. I would hate to see thousands in the near future.

[Mzungu]

yea I better test it all. I don't know how fast they die but they sure are hiding good. I thought this would take a couple of weeks at least. I really don't know so it's kind of a experiment for me. But if they go I'm happy! Ask geoff to post I know he's done this.

If he has before, it didn't work for long...lol.

[geoff_tropheus]

I dosed with Had-A-Snail for 2 days, then kept Coppesafe in the water for a month and I repalced the coppersafe at each waterchange.

I still have snails in the tanks where I did not maintain the coppersafe after dosing, but my other tanks the snails are gone.

Now I have a complete different sponge, brush, and waterchange schedule based upon snails/no snails.

The Had a snail and Coppersafe does work. You just need to make certain to replace the coppersafe at each waterchange, and be very CAREFUL not to cross contaiminate tanks with snails and those without.

Those pesky MTS are VERY VERY difficult to killl off. Luis once posted that he had a bucket of gravel in his garage for over a year that had been infested with those things. Then he or a friend of his setup a tank and using that gravel. During the cycle period...SNAILS appeared.

[76dragon]

I thought u had snail eating fish John?? They didnt do the job/?

[aggrofishkeeper]

Wouldn't a water change that big do more harm than good?

[newb]

nope...fish love the big water change if you have the biological filtration to back it up. Plus he uses a carbon "snake" with his water change so it removes everything bad in the water.

[newb]

Nice thread John...this might come in handy later on down the rode. I find them in one of my Rena xp3's everytime I clean it, but they are never in the tank.

[Somefishguy]

I have tons of mts in my planted tank... i rarely see them during the day though, so they dont bother me at all

[cichlid1409]

nope...fish love the big water change if you have the biological filtration to back it up. Plus he uses a carbon "snake" with his water change so it removes everything bad in the water.

+1 i do 80% every week. most of your tanks bacteria lives in the substrate and filter.