phatpaul
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Yeah it was something like that
Snails ?????
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samt1
Aquarium Advice Activist
Tried the lettuce again last night and no takers yet again 
anthony96
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samt1 said:I tried the lettuce trick last night to get rid of some of my snails but I didn't have a single one on there this morning!
Any tips to make it work better?
What is the lettuce trick
samt1
Aquarium Advice Activist
Put some lettuce in the tank over night (lights off) and snails should be on it come the morning so you can get them out of the tank, that's what I read on here, I have tried it twice but no luck so far.
jetajockey
come get me tang police!
try putting some food pellets down in a saucer. Every time I've dropped ken's pellets or sticks in the snails would swarm it in no time.
AquaOne
Aquarium Advice Freak
There are snail control chem's, but I couldn't recommend as they only seem to knock the snails out for a while, then you have to collect them up. My problem with a chemical that does this is it's in the water your fish are swimming in, surely it can't be too good for them if it knock's out snails, sort of an underwater chloroform !
Slug traps (outdoor) work by drowning slugs in beer ('cause they like beer, who discovered that ??), and snails are just slugs with a portable home on their backs. I don't imagine pumping a couple of gallons of budweiser into the tank would do any good though !
Back to normality... lettuce or cucumber should work okay, I have seen it done with a piece of lettuce tied to a length of cotton thread for easy extraction, works a treat if your snails are not carnivores !
Slug traps (outdoor) work by drowning slugs in beer ('cause they like beer, who discovered that ??), and snails are just slugs with a portable home on their backs. I don't imagine pumping a couple of gallons of budweiser into the tank would do any good though !
Back to normality... lettuce or cucumber should work okay, I have seen it done with a piece of lettuce tied to a length of cotton thread for easy extraction, works a treat if your snails are not carnivores !
jimenezlee
Aquarium Advice Activist
@samt1: I have another thread where I posted about finding snails and the lettuce method was also recommended, but in the suggestions I got they said the lettuce had to be blanched. (Boil water, turn heat off, dunk lettuce 3 mins)
samt1
Aquarium Advice Activist
Oh right great thanks for letting me know, I will try that out!
The guy at the sop also told me to try a piece of Apple?
