Snails crawling on my surface skimmer.

[paulrathor92]

Some of my snails been crawling on my surface skimmer causing the water level to drop in the return chamber if my AIO. So my ATO ends up pumping a bunch of extra water and messing up salinity. I'm thinking of gluing something on the skimmer like velcro or something sharp so they won't crawl on there but idk what exactly to use that would be reef safe? Any suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Ranjib]

Dont have any specific answer, most PVC/Acrylic based solution are good, use them with superglue may be? I wonder if some kind of barbed/spiked contraption will help. That is how we protect plants from snails (by keeping rose stem)

 

[Peter uk]

Some of my snails been crawling on my surface skimmer causing the water level to drop in the return chamber if my AIO. So my ATO ends up pumping a bunch of extra water and messing up salinity. I'm thinking of gluing something on the skimmer like velcro or something sharp so they won't crawl on there but idk what exactly to use that would be reef safe? Any suggestions are appreciated.

Have you found the solution. I added first cuc and guess what the same issue ato going crazy when turbo snails climbing over on surface skimming plate. Regards

 

[sean151]

How big is the tank and how much extra is being pumped? Are you using a controller to manage the pump you could set to a maximum runtime per set time period? I think I have mine set to max 20sec/hr.

 

[Peter uk]

Tank is only small and this is the problem (fluval sea evo). Not sure how much exactly being pumped. Ato I'm using is DD with two digital sensors, can't set up timing on it. When snail move the surface skimming plate, water in the rear chamber dropping and setting off the ato few times in the raw. I might need to glue the plate but then I won't have that flexibility.