These snails must die!

[zheka757]

Tiny snails, I must have million of them come out at night on my glass. And I can see them all over my rock work. Just now was cleaning my acrylic tank and one of them got cought in-between magnet and tank panel. Got a big scratch across my tank.
What can eat/kill these guys?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Tiny snails, I must have million of them come out at night on my glass. And I can see them all over my rock work. Just now was cleaning my acrylic tank and one of them got cought in-between magnet and tank panel. Got a big scratch across my tank.
What can eat/kill these guys?

These are collanista and breed like mice but great algae eaters. All you can do is net them as you can and sell/trade/discard

 

[juniorgomez708]

Why do you want to get rid of them? They are probably cleaning your tank. But if you really want to get rid of them, you can get a wrasse.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Collonista snails.
Unless you want to add a natural predator, that may well eat the other inverts in the tank, you're not getting rid of them.
They are great cuc members though, so I don't see why you'd want them to go...

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Why do you want to get rid of them? They are probably cleaning your tank. But if you really want to get rid of them, you can get a wrasse.

I have a six line and still have tons of collonistas...

 

[zheka757]

They become liability to my acrylic tank

 

[zheka757]

so what eats them? What wrasse?

 

[stoney7713]

I have a Timor wrasse that eats snails like candy if I don't feed him enough.

 

[juniorgomez708]

I have a six line and still have tons of collonistas...

I bet if you didn’t feed the tank for a couple of days they probably would. But I have heard six line not bother inverts

 

[workhz]

are they out during the day? if not, clean then.

 

[Acros]

I have a six line and still have tons of collonistas...

Second this. I have a six line wrasse and probably around 1000 colonista snails. They are good cuc.

 

[zheka757]

are they out during the day? if not, clean then.

they way i have my setup. is i always have to have magnet inside my tank. and snails find it as hiding place

 

[RedoubtReef]

They become liability to my acrylic tank

Can you explain this?

 

[zheka757]

Can you explain this?

one got stuck in between magnet and acrylic panel, got about 12 inch scratch across my tank.

 

[stoney7713]

one got stuck in between magnet and acrylic panel, got about 12 inch scratch across my tank.

Snail skid marks? Was his name turbo?

 

[zheka757]

Snail skid marks? Was his name turbo?

i cant say here what I called that snail. lol

 

[stoney7713]

i cant say here what I called that snail. lol

LOL

I feel sorry for you, here I'm in the opposite camp, wish I had them, can't keep them.

I know every fish is different, but I was rearranging some corals, pulled up a hair worm tube from the sand. My Timor wrasse looked like a dog with a bone!

 

[zheka757]

LOL

I feel sorry for you, here I'm in the opposite camp, wish I had them, can't keep them.

I know every fish is different, but I was rearranging some corals, pulled up a hair worm tube from the sand. My Timor wrasse looked like a dog with a bone!

ill buy your wrasse, lol

 

[Kasrift]

You could also add some predatory snails. I'm not sure if bumblebee snails would work, but they do eat smaller snails and vermetids as well.

 

[reeftankdude]

one got stuck in between magnet and acrylic panel, got about 12 inch scratch across my tank.

I have 3 green chromis that eat hatchings of the front glass as son as the lights come on.