New 20 Gallon Tank, & Snails?!?

i got a new 20 gallon.
it has 11 mollies (did i spell it wrong?), i put my 2 female bettas, and i put a pleco. i have a plroblem though i got it used and it has at least 100 snail. i'm to lazy to count but i like them, not all but some. is there any way i can get rid of some and not all?

for your 20 gallon tank the mollies and bettas don't create any problem but the problem is the huge no of snail...your ammonia and nitrate level will go high due to their waste...so either keep small no of snail or keep your aquarium very clean..in this case do 50% water change every 3 days, and siphon it daily...

You can control snail populations by baiting them. Put a hunk of lettuce in the aquarium for a couple of evenings, then throw away the lettuce and the snails clinging to it. Repeat until you have achieved the desired population control. NEVER RELEASE FISH, PLANTS, OR SNAILS INTO THE WILD.

Do you live in the uk? If so ill take a load from you.

i added a gold gourami, female, and a clown loach

Clown loaches can grow to be quite large.

John os right for the clown loach alone you had better start thinking about doubleing your tank size at a minimum. They get to about a foot long but their also about 6 inches wide. Also you should never keep just one of these. If your lucky you can get away with 2 but 3 or more is best.

I was told to get a clown loach and it got rid of my snail problem. Wow! I had no idea though they can get as big as you say..That's scary,mine is only a couple inches! I have a 55 gal I just put pics in the gemstone thread. Why is it not good to have only one loach??

it is always good for clown loaches that thy can form community.since you have 55 gallon tank so you may keep 6 clown loaches...it can grow upto 4 inches..

it is my clown loaches...

Thanks for the info and pic. I guess I should get him or her...a buddy. I still have lots of fish room...

You should get at least a group of three clown loaches or more. They like to school.

ya rightly he said,you can easily provide 6 clown loach so that they can form school.you may also keep black ghost knife. it is just today i bought 4 black ghost knife...

If you're talking about the 20 gallon tank, it seems over crowded already. The Clown Loaches will soon need a much larger aquarium, and the Mollies will need more room too once they start to reproduce. When the biological load gets too big, you risk upsetting the balance of the aquarium; please do regular checks for ammonia and nitrite.

I was refering to both Barptproductions and Katyasfish.

you should get a dwarf puffer there easy to keep and they eat snails like crazy i have a green spotted puffer and i feed him Black mystery snails ever other day im glad i got a good snail population to feed my fish snails

in south florida its hard to find dwarf puffers, i want a couple but i cnt find dem anywhere

You will want to house your dwarf puffers with their own kind since they are aggressive fish.

i still havent got my puffers! i got rid of all my adult guppies so that they wouldnt have babies, but now the young ones hav e grown up and are having babies. UGHHHH. i wish someone would just take all of my dumb guppies. i have like 50 now. this sucks.

If the aquarium is large enough, all you need to do is add a pair of angelfish. Of course, some aquarium shops will also take guppies. They're great aquarium fish, and the population explosion shows your aquarium is healthy.

jesskozzy wrote:

i still havent got my puffers! i got rid of all my adult guppies so that they wouldnt have babies, but now the young ones hav e grown up and are having babies. UGHHHH. i wish someone would just take all of my dumb guppies. i have like 50 now. this sucks.

Hmm I think the best way to get rid of them is to give them to a buddy with a big fish and just use them as feeders or Buy a big fish and just toss him in the tank and let him have a feast.



haha i just noticed something funny.... BarptProductions and fishycrackerz images almost look the same. Split personalities Or possibly A mirror universe. Wooo Wooo Scary Yah? LOL Just kidding, it does have a striking resemblence though.

why you people don't keep discus in your aquarium?

vashe wrote:

jesskozzy wrote:

i still havent got my puffers! i got rid of all my adult guppies so that they wouldnt have babies, but now the young ones hav e grown up and are having babies. UGHHHH. i wish someone would just take all of my dumb guppies. i have like 50 now. this sucks.

Hmm I think the best way to get rid of them is to give them to a buddy with a big fish and just use them as feeders or Buy a big fish and just toss him in the tank and let him have a feast. lol



haha i just noticed something funny.... BarptProductions and fishycrackerz images almost look the same. Split personalities Or possibly A mirror universe. Wooo Wooo Scary Yah? LOL Just kidding, it does have a striking resemblence though.:P

Barptproductions and I are friends so he took the pic at my house which is why it looks the same.

It is a fish eat fish world but isn't that sort of cruel?

Ain't that ever true!

Fishycrackerz wrote:

Barptproductions and I are friends so he took the pic at my house which is why it looks the same.

It is a fish eat fish world but isn't that sort of cruel?

johnarthur wrote:

Ain't that ever true!:huh:

Well i can see now why they would look the same.I guess i must have missed some post with that being mentioned.

I dont know, I guess everyone has a different point of view as what "cruel" is. But to me feeding live fish to bigger fish is them eatting naturally and it keeps there instincts in tack So to me I look at it as being a natural process of Life. But yah just buying a big fish to get rid of the smaller ones would be. Maybe that is what you all are refering to as "cruel"? If so, yah That was just me jokeing around and didn't expect anyone to take that comment seriously.

All of us have different opinions, and that's just fine so long as we state them in a polite manner, as I believe you did. I remember a long discussion about euthanizing fish; talk about opinions

Sometimes the internet isn't a good way to express yourself sometimes.

i agree