Not sure if this is an emergency but, last night we discovered a snail in the tank and this morning 2 more. What we cant understand is.........where they are coming from and will they harm the fish.
Thanks for any help you can give on this matter?

they more than likely came in on plants, and are a real pain, just remove all visible ones, turn any wood or rocks over and remove any that are on them, then wash the decor in a snail killer, then tinse with tap water, I had a massive infestation in my tank, due to buying a pplant from pets at home, and replanted the tank and blitzed the snails, nd I still see a few

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Thank you, we gor our plants from PAH too

I advise to not get any livestock or plants from pets at home, they are okay for dry goods, but not plants or live stock

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Thank you for your advice, funnily enough the plant is the only thing we have bought there.

happy to help, exactly the same thing happened to me, I bought a Vallis, thought I had cleaned it properly, and bam, loads of snails, loads of them, I'm pretty much on top of it at the moment, but you'll never get rid of them completly, just keep their numbers managable, btw, what size is your tank? cos if its a big tank, you could add a couple of Clown Loaches

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I had a problem with lots of snails and put in 4 zebra loaches and now there all gone.

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When I got my tank not long after we started finding snails all over the place, my mum told me whenever I saw one to squash it against the glass (If it was on the glass), and after a few weeks of snail squashing, they were gone. I've not seen another one for about 3 years!

Munkymummy: As the other posters have said, you have picked them up on live plants. These things are very difficult to get rid of once established. Snail treatments are available but can upset your water or any other inverts you might have in the tanks. Look under any decor for white slime jelly stuff. Those are the eggs. Exterminate with extreme prejudice

Or you could go for the biological removal methods. Most botia species are good snail hunters. Botia striata (candy loach) and sidthimunki (pygmy chain) being the best IMO. Clown loach are nice but can get quite large. If you are really desperate for snail munching, and have the tankmates for it, pygmy puffers can absoultely annihilate any snail infestation. But then the problems of keeping them fed on other suitably crunchy food.

i wouldn't use pets at home anyway, for any of my fish keeping stuff. You get the odd member of staff who knows what they are on about but they have too many different types of animals and too many different products for each type to really know the ins and outs of all of it.

Plus they tend to stock products of the king british and aquarian lines. Neither of which are what you could call the specialists choice. Mostly over priced and not the highest standard

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