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Suse wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 19:05 pm Esha Gastropex works well. Though if you only have a handful I'd try just picking them out first. I don't like them personally and like Stephen will only buy from the snail-free suppliers he listed now.

I actually tried Esha Gastropex when some real tiny Malaysian trumpet snails (MTS) came in with some corydoras.
As MTS are livebearers I ended up with a few hundred.
The Esha Gastropex brought the snails out of the substrate and up the glass, I picked up hundreds, 40 one night, 40 another night and so on ..
The Esha Gastropex did not bring them all out though and I ended up completely emptying my aquarium of plants, sand and plant substrate.
The fish were placed in 2 x holding tanks.
I gave the bogwood a good scrub and poured boiling water over the wood afterwards.
After giving the empty aquarium a damn good clean I replaced the old plant substrate with new and also replaced the old sand with new.
The only real way to get rid of pest snails is to completely empty the aquarium and start again.
If you can pick out the ones that you can see then maybe you'll save yourself a lot of time (and money) later on.

All the best

I prefer not to dose my tanks if i can. Does anyone know if there is a particular food they are attracted to.
I have somehow got crazy amounts of tiny snails in one of my tanks but no adults that i can find.
I have tried pulling out all of the ones i see but I dont think im winning.
I put in a lettuce leaf and some courgette over night but it didnt seem to get many.
Was wondering if any had found a particular food that they swarm?

I find they "swarm" on any food. Keep trying until you find something yours particularly fancy....
Have you recently introduced new plants?

I've notice a few of these since buying some rabbit snails. I have about 5 in tank but have got rid of 6 more. Are they Let or Pest

How bigs that one? Looks pretty cool also looks like a ‘mystery snail’

They are tiny. Think their Ramshorn

I don't know what baby rabbit snails look like, but they look too pretty to be average ramshorns.....

Either they are giant ramshorn snails (Marisa Chiquitensis) or purple mystery snails (Pomacea Bridgesii) I’d say the latter!