On 08/30/2012 11:59 AM, Bill Z wrote:
> I have gone through more than 10 of these bottles and
> still the snails come back when I stop the treatment.
That stuff can be dangerous to some kinds of fish. And, as you've found
out, it doesn't always work.
The only way I've found that's 99% effective is to put the fish and
plants in another tank, clean out the gravel/sand/whatever and sterilize
the tank with bleach. Rinse well and put in a new substrate. Then
sterilize the plants - a Google will give you various methods - and
replant them.
I like to give the plants a week or two to re-root before putting the
fish back, but that has nothing to do with the sterilizing.
It's always worked for me, but I say 99% because it's always possible
that one or two eggs can make it through.
I had one tank where one or two snails came in as eggs on a plant (that
was guaranteed to be snail-free - HAH) and I managed to kill them and
their few descendants manually. But I was lucky.
Larry B
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It's turtles, all the way down!
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