what a fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing it to you on a
Sunday baby how's everybody doing I hope you're doing well and I hope this snails
in your tank of doing well that's right folks because it's Sunday if species son
in I got a super-duper snail species Sunday for you all but first a note
about snails I Rock snails I love still I've got snails all over
the place in here I've got a bajillion snails out in the greenhouse I like them
they're part of nature they sift around they eat off dead stuff every now and
then they grab a plant but whatever you don't like snails you get a loach
lunches will keep them in check but some of y'all are still haters and don't like
snails so before I give you three species of snails I want to talk about
how you can never have snails in your tank in the first place how to kill
snails up first let's relax of the greenhouse you don't we all right so if
you don't want to have any snails in your tank
the easiest way tonight uh snails your takis never let them in your tank in the
first place there's two ways you can go about this one you can get tissue
culture plants this is a pretty tight crypt flamingo right err tissue culture
grown sterile environment whatever they're not going to bring snails in
your tank or you get plants the old-fashioned way like this wonderful
big a punch of time Bolivians you can see this sucker right here has all kinds
of big old snails on its leaves there you can check that out one right there
and what you do this is simple folks if you have all this stuff at home all you
need to do is get a gallon of big old bucket of water so I got a gallon of
water out of your tank and the reason you want to use water out of your tanks
it's the same temps and everything as your tank we do you take that gallon
water put it into a big ol bucket like this and then you go down to your mom's
a laundry area and you grab yourself some bleach doesn't matter what brand
this just happens to be Clorox and this is the tricky part now kids at home if
you get bleach on your clothes your mom will kill you ask me about how I know
this when I was a youngster I did so do not get bleach on your clothes and be
careful bleach is bleach and you do not need much of it at all okay we need five
milliliters those you don't know the metric system it's about this size cap
right here so what I'm going to terribly take this and I'm going to pour just a
tiny tiny tiny bit of bleach in here like that's all the more you need like
just five milliliters like less is more of this stuff okay it's bleach I poured
my gallon in now look I want to roll the dice on half
to be too concentrated oblique so I'm actually going to add a little bit more
tank water into this here just to be on the safe side and then what you what you
do is you get your your plants prepped you plant some nearby you take it pour
that in there and then all you got to do is take and dip this plant very quickly
in this now we're only doing about a 5 or 10 count okay you take this you take
the plan now look we got a little bleach bubbling actual if you can see that in
there so we want to be quick about this we don't want to do more than like a 10
counter we just dip the plant in there here we go so we take the plant we dip
it down to the bleach water like this give it a big swirl count of 10 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 that should kill anything now what we want to do is we want to
dump this out pretty quick dump that out and then we quickly add new water either
from your tank or from the tap I went ran from tap is cheaper if you can do it
quicker you can do it out of tank that's fine and then yuri rinse the plant
that's very important Yuri rinse the plant right here like this so that all
that nasty bleach water is off the plant carefully letting you look you should
not see any snails so you got to kind of inspect it but definitely the snails are
no longer on here use the big leaf upon Teuton Bolivian is here now look is this
hard on the plant like the plant does not like this but it'll kill the snails
that are on your plant should kill any of the eggs you can see there are no
more snails sitting on my wonderful upon dirt on Bolivia's so now this is ready
to go but I like snails and I can't wait to show you guys and sweets me it's
Sunday it's specie Sunday and I've got one two three species of snails for you
all but first if you've got algae in your tank that's your fault that's your
problem okay the snails about to show you aren't going to fix your algae
problem your lights are on too long you got a nutrient too much nutrients too
much fish way something's going on it's causing ality they might do an alright
job of eating some of the algae but don't rely on them to fix the problem
they're just like a band-aid so you got to fix what's up with your lights or
your your algae issues are deeper than the snails can handle that said here's
three tight species of snails here we go the first one I want to talk about are
the Nair eyed stales from the Greek god of the underwater narita sore whatever
we got ourselves some Tiger nanites right here got the cool red and like
black dots on them really sweet looking I like these I've also got the zebra
that I've been keeping as well really cool looking shells on these and what's
thought about these and kind of unfortunate is they don't reproduce they
need saltwater or raised in salinity got to produce so they're not gonna like
replicate in your aquarium which is a good thing if you're not want to have
too many snails they're from Africa Mozambique South Africa all around there
and they get a little bit bigger than that but I love the Nair eyed snails
definitely a cool one nice little scavenger best looking shells as far as
I'm concerned so definitely a fun want to check out coming a bunch of different
varieties I've also got for you awesome assassin snails now says this snails are
tight I'm showing them secondly because the thermal doing better but these are
assassin snails up in here I'll be keeping these for like six months I love
them now look they're fast first day I mean they get after it
you can see the little top part sticks up every now and then they cruise around
and you can see this show right here like they're just opportunistic
predators they come in BAM like taking out smaller snails no problem that shell
right there as Foreman assassins now they cruise kind of like just below the
substrate line and do a nice job makes them actually I like them because you
can find them pretty easy because it just case slightly above or below the
surface so definitely a lot of fun with the assassin snails don't get much
bigger than that there will turn on each other they don't have enough food so
make sure there is stuff for them to scavenge on and then finally these are
my favorite these take the cake mystery snails I'm not going to try to pronounce
the scientific name it's in the comments below
mystery sales are tight I love me some mystery snails from South America come
in a bunch of different colors I've just been loving on them I've got the gold
and the ivory that I've just really really really been digging and I'll tell
you I fell in love with these snails when I put them in here I had a ton of
this stringy algae check out this footage is Wiley the camera in the
greenhouse look at these snails just slurping up
this algae like it's wet noodles just slurping it up prolific breeders they
will I don't know they they go above the surface to breed and then like a lay
eggs and come down so you can probably not worry about them like overtaking
your tank from I love them they come in gold ivory black
yeah I've been loving me some snails so yeah rob me a comment tell me what you
love what you hate what you know about some sales in the comments what your
favorite that sort of thing if you like what I'm doing subscribe everybody have
a fabulous freakin weekend and take on what