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I'll try this with a plastic jar I have in the recycling bin. Just cleaned it out and am drilling some holes in it. I'll probably pick up a cheap tank at a thrift store/craigslist and start dumping the snails in it to see what grows up. Either way I'll find a use for these little guys.

Thanks for the reply. Yesterday I took about 2% of the water out with the gravel vac and strained the contents through a net. I found my jewelers lens and learned that a bunch of the little snails are also assassins. For this reason I think I will halt the daily vacuuming (after 1...

I am new to the forum and did my best to find a previous thread addressing my particular problem. I did not find any specific advice so here's my situation. Tank details are in my profile. 55g with 35 fish as of last week. All tetra save 3 kuhli loaches. Roughly 30 plants, albeit small plants...