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@librasunscorpiomoon5894

6 жыл бұрын

The Fish Nerd The Blue ramshorns I bought from you of course! 😁

@presouz1740

6 жыл бұрын

The Fish Nerd I am scared to death of snails when I was younger I started the hobby and was overrun with snails on the glass eggs everywhere so anytime I get plants I always quarantine them for a month or more until I make sure that there's no snails. Or I pay the big bucks for tissue cultures that are in gel that are guaranteed no pests This gives me the heebie-jeebies looking at all those snails LOL I put a message about a homemade snail trap that won't hurt your fry and you can release the fry every 10 minutes every hour if they get stuck in this homemade trap

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Rebecca Portaluppi aha!! No wonder your name is so familiar!! Lol I thought I only recognized it from KZread but now I remember you ordered snails! How are they doing for you?

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Guppy Gal & Tanzie the Ragdoll lol I used to do everything I could to keep snails out of my tanks. Now I just embrace it. Lol

@SantaMonicaFiltration

6 жыл бұрын

I must learn more about FW snails... I've over-dosed my brain with SW info :)

Dude! Where did you buy that Malaysian substrate?😂😂😂.

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Dank Tanks haha! Made it myself!

@byrguy1295

4 жыл бұрын

lol ya. I thought I had a lot of MTS till I saw this. Must have got them when I purchased some fish. My zebra loaches kill a lot of them and still dont make much of an impact on them. Assassin snails seem like a better solution to wipe them out but I had my loaches 1st so they stay :)

@cadepope4093

3 жыл бұрын

Think you added a little calcium 😂

@kinkyfella1994

3 жыл бұрын

Ded

Control your pet snail population, have them spayed or neutered

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

Haha!!!

@muddyriverdogz

Жыл бұрын

Crush and don't get them in the first place

donate a big bag of snails to Murphy in Aquarium Co-Op as a snack :)

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

Something tells me Murphy could make short work of them! lol

@evanprobst3755

6 жыл бұрын

Spare the life of the poor snails! I'll take them instead of u killing them XD

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Evan Rules lol 👍🏼

@renewillard777

4 жыл бұрын

The Fish Nerd do you still sell snails? I will buy some of each! If healthy

Holy smokes that's a lot of snails

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

They errwhere lol

@zettatakem4173

5 жыл бұрын

I have so many I don't know what to do Apple snails r for ever what a joke 🤭

I started using pulverized eggshell that I grind with a cheap coffee grinder for my cherry shrimp ,and the snails love it too ,and I noticed their shells are much nicer than before. . No signs of calcium deficiency anymore. I believe it also helps buffer the water ,as I feed my shrimp a lot of different kinds of dried leaves ,which makes the water more acidic and tea colored . . . Great presentation ,Thanks..

Nerite Snails are my go-to snail ... they don't breed in freshwater, they look good, they eat algae (especially brown algae) and they don't eat healthy plants :))

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

They are pretty awesome. :)

@johnnokov2852

4 жыл бұрын

But they leave eggs EVERYWHERE

@nicholaslopez6384

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnnokov2852 which ones do u like?

Great video. I love snails. I use powdered eggshell and cuttlebone in my tanks. The shrimp and snails love it!

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+HopArt Studio Thanks HopArt! Yeah, that's a great tip. LR Bretz uses eggshell in his shrimp tanks as well.

Assassins won't kill your shrimp. There are copious numbers of trumpets to keep them fed.

@caseythrasher

3 жыл бұрын

They hunt Malaysian over everything as well lll

One of the best videos I've seen on snails thx

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I saw you on Flip Aquatics and I gotta say that your snails are awesome. Only if you had a mbu puffer :)

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+CW Aqua Hobby thanks CW!! A Mbu puffer would be awesome! A Schoutedeni (basically a mini Mbu) is on my bucket list. :)

Me---wow crushed coral for a substrate looks good. You---ya those are MTS.... Mind blown!

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Lol yup

This is my first time finding you. Great Review. I am one who got some Ramshorn Snails and Bladder Snails with some WaterSprite and Hornwort from a LPS. I don't want to get a Turtles. I want to add Shrimp, but don't want them killed you. As long as I was only I was only sticking to Tissue Culture Plants, I was fine. I need to get this under control because I don't want to transfer these guys into my new tank. Meanwhile, I need to find someone to take them. :-)

I love my MTS and red as brown ramshorns. I feed my extra snails to my loaches. I have always wanted assassin snails but they are classed as an invasive species in New Zealand. Thanks for the vid man!

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Cookiz4dark no kidding! Wow, that stinks that they're classed as invasive there!

great video..thank you

tie a string on a chunk of cucunber to collect snails,they will cover it

The snails are pretty easy to catch without a commercial trap. DIY yourself a shallow sinking dish of some sort tied to a string. Sink the dish...place some food in it and leave it in awhile/overnite. Pull it out via the string full of snails. It works well because the plecos and shrimp are fast and will escape the dish while youre lifting it out. And no hands in the tank. Or just scoop/grab them out b hand as Ive heard you say lol

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

trebor44089 not a bad idea! I've also thought of rigging up something similar to suspend the food up in the water column where the snails can't get to it.

Great video thanks

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU!

I love my MTS!! They serve such a great purpose for us planted tankers❤ They get a bad reputation!

Cool vid

I have never seen so many snails ever!!

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Lol it’s pretty ridiculous

That's a big crew of cleaners. Indeed the only way to reduce them is tomove out the fish and shrimp, then have the snails alone.

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Malaysian trumpet snails and duckweed will both survive the apocalypse.

I absolutely love snails and I have a bunch of mystery snails

Your substrate is snails

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Lol pretty much

Have you ever seen MTS or Assassins attack fish eggs or wigglers? I am curious if they will impede dwarf cichlid reproduction

I would love to take some MTS off your hands!! I love them!!

@madcat61207

4 жыл бұрын

Me too, They're Delicious!!

Nice tank men

in the beginning i had those small round snails, i always pick up few of them, to control population and after 4-5 months from aquarium start i find one Malaysian Trumpet Snail and after few months those round snails has gone and soon there was many Trumped babes. It's so odd where gone all those round snails

Really good snail info, here!! Thx! Anyone have experience with Malaysian Trumpet snails as Puffer food?? Or do they just get their heads cut off and foul the tank water?? Can puffers crunch those stiffer thick shells? Was thinking of letting them burrow in my substrate for the Puffs.. Figure 8 puffers.

thank you I will check it out

Would you recommend spirulina powder for the shrimp/why and how do you use it to feed them?

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Evan Rules I sure do! It's such a fine powder that it dissolves in the water and makes a film on everything that the shrimp can graze on. Excellent for babies.

@evanprobst3755

6 жыл бұрын

The Fish Nerd thanks for the information!

i love it, im breed yellow rabitt, there are amazong, regards!

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+MinorSwing82 that's awesome!

Great food supply for pea puffers.

Get like 3 assassin snails and theyll be gone in no time i let my pest snail population grow till i felt they would continuously populate and the assassin wouldnt eradicate them and i think he has lol

at 4:17 what plant is that?. i found some in a lake, and it is growing like crazy.

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

The plants in that tank are hornwort (floating all over the top) and the thick carpet on the bottom is just a bunch of algae. :)

My MTS don't breed like crazy oddly enough. Bladder snails and mini ramshorn snails though HOLY COW. I had one MTS that I received as a hitchhiker on a plant. Quarantined it in its own half gal mini tank and there must have been a few of the other snails I just mentioned. Within 3 months the MTS only had 2 babies that I found while the bladder and mini ramshorn snails were out of control with very minimal feeding 😳 1 year after moving the MTS into my 10 gal they're still trying to establish a really good population.

@ambatukham3482

2 жыл бұрын

Mts need a male and female to reproduce. Bladder and ramshorns don't need a mate.

FYI I was watching Rachel O'Leary and she has a homemade snail trap that would not harm your fry one little bit in fact it's made from a water bottle that's been cut in half and inverted back the other way and will catch a ton of snails in no time she caught like 30 snails in an hour and then you can just remove the top part of the trap real quick and let the fry out every hour

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Guppy Gal & Tanzie the Ragdoll Awesome!! I'll have to go check that out!! Thanks for the tip!

I wish I had that many mts! My Assassin snails are starving!

@TheFishNerd

3 жыл бұрын

They wouldn't be in this tank! Lol

Hello, I have a question. What is that beautiful fish at 6:10? It’s near the wood and swims around it. I would love to know because it’s a stunning fish.

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

That’s a Ruby Killi, aka Nothobranchius Rubripinnis.

Suuuuuper coool

@TheFishNerd

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Any idea if I can use snails in a tank with an ornate bichir?

Are they canned green beans and do you cook first? Also, any problems with platies?

@TheFishNerd

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, canned green beans and no, I don't cook them. They're soft enough out of the can so I just drain them. Not sure what you mean about problems with platies but I've never had any (can't say there never are any, but I haven't in any of the situations I've kept them in).

What is the plant in the tank that has the Malaysian Trumpet Snails for substrate? I have that in one of my tanks, but I don't know what it is (I got it out of the river).

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

Hornwort and cladophora algae

Carlos, you have type one and type two MTS....must be tough. :P

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!!! That cracked me up!

Why not put a few assassin snales in for the trumpets

I paused it trying to figure out what the green beans were before he said green breen I was at a loss as to what it was lmao

Also will mineral rocks work for snails too?

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Evan Rules yup!

will one trumpet snail multiply. I had one ramshorn snail ( a baby ) in the tank and it made babies.

@TheFishNerd

3 жыл бұрын

Yup! They can mate before you get them and have babies after.

Very informative Carlos! Thanks for sharing

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+EJ Fishes 76 thanks EJ!

I love snails

I know you made this 3 years ago but hopefully you will see this. I am in Michigan do you know if it's safe for me to order the blue snails online? Do you recommend a site?

@TheFishNerd

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I ordered mine from ebay. Aquabid has sellers who ship them as well and Life With Pets sells them online too.

Best snail info.

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+KCHstudio Phx thanks!!

Help! Please!! How do you tell the difference between rabbit snails and trumpet snails? Is there a way to look at them and tell? Thank you for any advice you can offer!

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

Rabbit snails get way bigger and generally have darker shells.

@anastazias712

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishNerd Thank you!! :-)

if you wanted to do a puffer they would love it

I love rabbit snails. I found mystery snails kind of annoying. At one point I had over 300 of them. They just kept breeding. I also had a calcium problem in my tank with the mystery snails. I bought a bag of 10 cuttlebones for birds it only cost like two or three dollars. I think I crushed up three of them and put it in the tank on one side and then I put another one in the filter so it would slowly erode into the water. That took care of my problem with the calcium.

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Yup! That’ll do it!!

Excellent information in thus video- thank you!!💕👍

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+CJ Black thanks CJ!

Can you not huck a couple assasin snails into the Malaysian Tumpet Snail tank?

Dude!! Thanks for the great video!!! I am a bit of a snail nerd, and loved the great info!!! Maybe now I can get my assassins to breed, seems so simple but but I never thought it through.

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Tim Jack Good luck! Hope they take off for you!!

QUESTION : I have 4 Rabbit snails, can I add a Helena? (plague of little snails) Thanks and God bless

@CoolGobyFish

Жыл бұрын

why would you add something called assassin to expensive and slow breeding high end snails?

So cool, thank you...

Maybe just have a tank for snails or multiple tanks?

Can you just take all the empty ramshorn snails from the assassin snail tank and dump them into the ramshorn tank to give them back their calcium?

my mom would borrow a turtle from a friends son and it cleaned a lot of the snails out. she would do that when ever the snails got out of hand.

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

My turtles love snail snacks

I thought I had A LOT of malaysians. But this dude is measuring them in inches.

EggShells is a great form of calcium for snails. You have to totally clean them and just crush the eggshells and bury in the substrate.

Will the assassin snail keep trumpet snails in check?

@TheFishNerd

2 жыл бұрын

They'll eat them. Trumpet snails breed fast enough though that if you overfeed they'll still multiply faster than the assassins can eat them.

Soooo take handfuls of your trumpets and feed them to your assassin snails and then take the shells of all the dead snails and crushed them back into your ram tank for calcium instead of buying crushed coral?

heck i’ll buy some

What is the substrate used in your Assassin Snail tank?

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+amy marie just a thin layer of cheap aquarium gravel...and a bunch of mulm lol

I was breeding snails for my puffer... it did get out of control so now I just use cucumber to bait the snails out

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

I've done the same.

what kind of pleco are those? Id like to breed some.

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Bristlenose

Maybe try feeding higher up so the plecos can get there

Why don't you use cuttlefish bone? I have shrimp and multiple species of snails, I have cuttlebone in every tank and ponds, it only cost a dollar, and I put a one inch piece every time one dissolves.

Where did you find the blue rabbit snail?

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

Flipaquatics.com

What is the plant in the tank with the plecos and snails

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

It’s cladophora algae lol

Do u sell the Malaysian Trumpet snails..?

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

I don't

Put a large spinach leaf in the tank. When it is full of snails, lift them out.

Why are there no fish in the assassin snails tank?

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

That tank was going through a transition at that point. It had been a grow out tank for baby guppies but now isn't even on that rack.

where can I find those blue snails

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

cK ThrAsheR fishnerdstore.com Unfortunately I do have them as out of stock until I get more healthy shells after the calcium issue.

how do you have so much ramshorn snails? i only have 12

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

I started with 5 lol

Where do you get your snails?

@TheFishNerd

3 жыл бұрын

The assassin snails came from my local fish store, the blue ramshorns came from eBay, the rabbit snails came from Flip Aquatics, and the Malaysian trumpet snails came as hitchhikers on plants I got from my LFS.

Wonder shell works immediately to get calcium to the shrimp and snails

You definitely have an abundance of snails. Cool Carlos.

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+GDee Cichlids that's for sure! Lol

You should seperate out the albino blue ramshorn

What about loaches?

Got 15 MTS on the way. Hopefully I'll have too many to count soon

@TheFishNerd

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, you will. Lol

Do rabbit snails burrow in sad?

@TheFishNerd

5 жыл бұрын

They do some but not deep like the MTS

Hi guys , doesn't the assassin snail eat baby shrimps?

@TheFishNerd

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard from friends that they ate theirs, but I've never encountered it in my own tanks.

so cute snails~!!!!

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Pleco Zone 😁

That's a lot of MTS!

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+j03yYunG Aquariums yup! Lll

Rams worked for me, and that wasn't their purpose, I'm told they don't eat snails, but I watched my German blue rams eating them, 2 of them almost cleared my pond snail infestation, unfortunately they only lived about 2 months, and the snails made a comeback, I replaced them with bolivian rams which I've only had a few months, and they cleared the snails up fast.

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

Wow! Never seen that before! I did have jewel cichlids eat a bunch of them before.

@troublingleaf

6 жыл бұрын

The Fish Nerd yeah in all fairness I did also take the bigger ones out by hand, but they definitely ate any that would fit in their mouths, I'm still vacuuming out empty shells!

do snail eggs make for good fish food?

@TheFishNerd

2 жыл бұрын

Loaches will eat snail eggs

@carvedwood1953

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishNerd Thanks. Trying to pick a good snail for my betta tank. It is not very large so I am leaning towards nerite so they dont multiply.

I might make a note about calcium. Buy a cuttlebone, break a small piece off and drop it in there. White shell solved.

New substrate unlocked snail substrate

@TheFishNerd

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@brandons2483

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheFishNerd good to know you still are replying to a video from 3 years ago

A few loaches would eat them but leave fry alone

Good one!

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

hey why don't you release one assasin snail into the malaysian trumpet snail tank to control things

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+dennis I doubt just one would be able to control that many but I am considering adding several once my breeding colony of assassin snails gets bigger.

I LOOOOOVE rabbit snails and MTS :) need some in my life!!!

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Amelia's Menagerie I've got enough MTS to spare. Lol

I have a MTS problem in my 46bow. How many assassin snails do you think it would take to stabilize the MTS? I really don't want to eradicate them. Just control their population from getting out of control.

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+Adam C. It's going to depend on how many MTS you have but honestly, if you just want to control the population, the most effective way is to adjust your feeding. The more leftover food that fish don't eat, the more snails you get. The less food the fish leave behind, the fewer snails.

why not put some assassin snails in the tank with all the trump snails?

@TheFishNerd

6 жыл бұрын

+The Black Night I've thought about it...may still do it...I just hesitate because they can sometimes eat shrimp too (though I doubt they would in this tank with all the snails to eat)