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What fish compatible with guppies will eat pond snails in a 5 gal tank Needs to be a small fish2007-11-24 23:40:49

I just have 2 guppies, male and female. They have so far eaten any fry and seem to be very happy in the 5 gallon tank. But the pond snails are taking over! I've reassembled the cleaned the tank twice, which took care of the larger snails, but now all the babies are out.

Answers:

Try this instead.

Get some lettuce. Romaine works best, but any kind is fine. Put it into the tank and weight it down with something. Wait 30 minutes, and pull the lettuce out with the snails all over it. Put the snail covered lettuce down the garbage disposal. If you don't have one, cover all the snails in salt. You want them dead before you put them into the trash, so they don't get into your local ecosystem.

Repeat until you can't see any more snails. Then repeat again a few days later. Then again once a week just to be sure you got them all.

Good Luck

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Zebras , neons and algae eaters.

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Wow, good question! I am thinking there are two ways to do this. either get a small gold fish that will eat the snail eggs that they lay on anything they can find.OR, do it the right way and get all the fish into another tank; boil the gravel, throw out the plants if they're real because snails naturally will lay eggs on those first so the babies have food.

Truly, The only sure-fire way to get rid of the snails is to start a new tank set up and let everything in the old tank including every part, filter, hose, thermometer.. everything! and let it totally dry out, maybe two months.