Not all snails are equally useful to an aquarium. In a spawning aquarium the snails in general have nothing to do, they eat caviar and larvae of fishes. In the general aquarium of a horde of snails can destroy water plants completely. The most widespread problem for the aquarian is rapid reproduction of the red horn-shaped coil or a red fiza. It is necessary to get rid of them periodically.
It is required to you
- - banana peel;
- - lettuce leaves;
- - chloric lime;
- - battery of 9-12 V;
- - wires;
- - copper wire:
- - fishes predators: makropod ordinary, tetradont and others.
Instruction
1. It is possible to get rid of snails in several ways. Large snails, such as ampulyariya, it is possible to collect by hands and to transfer to other aquarium. Juveniles at these snails too rather large, and layings of caviar are under integumentary glass of an aquarium. The laying similar to raspberry berries is over water. Remove it and you will throw out.
2. Snails can be caught on a bait. As a bait use a banana peel and lettuce leaves. Put a bait on an aquarium bottom. When snails gather for a bait, delete them together with a peel or leaves. This procedure needs to be done several times with intervals in 3-4 days to remove not only large snails, but also recently hatched from caviar. In this case fishes and plants it is optional to delete from an aquarium.
3. There is an electric method of removal of snails. Take 2 multicore copper wires. On the one hand smooth out the ends in the form of whisks on 3-5 cm. Connect other ends to the battery of 9-12 V. Lower smoothed out none will be the wiser from the opposite sides of an aquarium for 2-3 minutes. Snails perish. This way, despite speed, has the shortcomings. First, many plants do not transfer ions of copper and can die. Secondly, it is authentically unknown how this procedure affects fishes though some aquarians also claim that it is harmless. Thirdly, dead snails all the same should be deleted from an aquarium manually. Decaying, they will spoil water.
4. The radical method of fight against snails is that from an aquarium all fishes and plants leave. Destroy plants. Completely replace soil or boil it with the subsequent washing. Disinfect an aquarium chloric lime, carefully wash out and dry. Again fill an aquarium with water. This method can be used only in small aquariums where biological balance quickly is established and there are no valuable plants.
5. The most effective and eco-friendly method of fight against snails is biological. Put in the aquarium of their natural enemies infected with snails. These are hungry adult makropoda, large tsikhlida. Better than others specialized mollyuskoyeda — tetradonta cope with this task. Caviar of snails is very well destroyed by antsistrusa. Couple spawning tsikhlazy or akar completely destroy all snails in a 100-liter aquarium in 2 days.