Snail Infestation!

[enzof9]

First of all, hi.

Second, yeah yeah yeah, I know this has been asked about a lot on this forum, but I feel i'm in a unique predicament.

So, my problem is that I seem to have an infestation of MTS in my tank. And I can tell those of you who have never had them before, it sucks. I have been going around asking how to get rid of them in a tank with Cherry Shrimp in it. I was told to use clown loaches, but they would eat the shrimp. I was told to use Snail-X but again, that too would harm the shrimp. I also tried to find some assassin snails, but they seem to be out of stock or discontinued everywhere (local breeders and lfs).

Stock of aquarium is as follows: 8 guppies, 10 sword fish, 5 platties, 6 neon tetras, 2 bosemani rainbows, 1 sunset gourami, 15 or so cherry shrimp, a few amazon swords, java moss and a bit of star grass.

If anyone has any suggestion on how I could get rid of or at least control this outbreak, it would be well appreciated.

[sheamurai]

Try a snail trap. This was posted to one of my threads earlier.

http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/aqua...ht=shrimp+trap

A wee search of old threads can answer a lot of recurring questions...

[dmagerl]

You can try No Planaria:
http://greenleafaquariums.com/aquari...-aquarium.html

Don't know if it works on MTS, but it knocked out all my pond snails.

[Lady Hobbs]

Buy Assassin snails. I was over run with pond snails and I hate them with a passion. Assassins eliminated them until I had NONE, ZERO, NATTA!

Just as I was rejoying over having no snails, I bought a plant that had Trumpets. And now am over run with them! *sigh

[sheamurai]

OP did mention that assassin snails were hard to find locally. Maybe they can be ordered online?

[Lady Hobbs]

How I got mine. Got them from a very good member here.

[enzof9]

I'm starting to have second thoughts on my judgement of which type of snail I actually have, so here are some terrible pictures that might help.