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  • #16
    I have a few ideas.
    Fish are people too, they just have gills.

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    • #17


      How are they still IN there????
      "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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      • #18
        Maybe some survived in the filter in the filter?
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        • #19
          I will say for sure Assassin snails will do the best job. I have had botias with very limited success and I dont wont loaches as the are much more aggressive diggers and uproot plants a lot more than botias. I have a heavily planted 90G tank and I ordered about 10 assassin snails for it. I had way more MTS than I can count probably in the hundreds and they would carpet the ground and glass at night. Now 5 months later I realized I dont remember the last time I have seen an MTS in the tank. I only see the assassins now which reproduce slower than MTS and look cooler. If you want a few let me know between the two tanks I have them in I have enough to go around and control the MTS population.
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          • #20
            im curious why urs are so evil. Mine dont eat my plants, attack my fish, and it is very rare i see one during the day

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            • #21
              I scrubbed the entire filter and put all new media in it. Luckily I have pretty good well water that I rarely have any problem with. I know i will go through a bloom, but basically I went back to a fresh tank.
              I am going to try assassins... I had one and it got eaten by the evil snails. One more shot... the mts' I am seeing right now are small...so the chances are better that they can be consumed... *sighs*
              5.5 fw fluval chi - class N top bar snake chested endlers/ red marble bn/ 4 stripe RCS/ pumpkin shrimp
              20 sw cube - a few damsels and a colony of bristleworms
              29 fw - self cloning crayfish..which can't seem to clone haha
              29 fw - mollies / albino bristlenose / ghost shrimp and snowball shrimp/ glo danios
              29 fw - crs/ amano/tiger shrimp /assassins/ whiptails/ plants/ 3 emerald cories
              55 fw - steatocranus casaurius (20ish)/ tetras/ rainbows/large Jack Dempsey
              75 fw - large Jack Dempseys / pictus cat/ yoyo loach/ Red gippicep
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              • #22
                I would do a combination of removing mts manually and adding predators like the assasin snails.

                use a net to drag mts off the glass whenever you see them on it and throw them down the toilet

                you could even put some sinking wafers or whatever in the tank to lure some of the snails into a bunch and scoop em up as well

                I had a mild mts outbreak in my 30 gallon tank and always just scooped em out in the evening to control them... I put 2 assasin snails in it and now I will occasionally see one or 2 mts.. but thats all.

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