Tiny snail removal device

[ScottF]

Anyone know of a good device for removing hundreds of invasive tiny snails from the glass. Something like an algae scraper with a cup under it to catch the little buggers? I've seen 3d printed ones for use with asterina in videos, but I'm not sure where to get one.

 

[exnisstech]

What are they bothering that makes them invasive?
Not sure about snails but I use a net to scrape asterina stars off the glass .

 

[reeferID]

My tank is a little more than 2 1/2 years old. About 6 months ago, I had what I thought was an explosion of tiny snails too. Now, from the seemingly hundreds in my tank, I bet I can't find 20. They just started disappearing, and are now very few and far between. Hopefully yours will be the same. I suppose my juvenile six line wrasse could be helping.

 

[ScottF]

My tank is a little more than 2 1/2 years old. About 6 months ago, I had what I thought was an explosion of tiny snails too. Now, from the seemingly hundreds in my tank, I bet I can't find 20. They just started disappearing, and are now very few and far between. Hopefully yours will be the same. I suppose my juvenile six line wrasse could be helping.

I don't think my sexy shrimp would like it if I tossed a wrasse in there.

 

[UncommonSense]

My tank is a little more than 2 1/2 years old. About 6 months ago, I had what I thought was an explosion of tiny snails too. Now, from the seemingly hundreds in my tank, I bet I can't find 20. They just started disappearing, and are now very few and far between. Hopefully yours will be the same. I suppose my juvenile six line wrasse could be helping.

This sounds a lot like parasitic pyramid snails!

— did your population of herbivorous snails, and any clams decrease before the tiny snail population started dying off?

 

[ScottF]

What are they bothering that makes them invasive?
Not sure about snails but I use a net to scrape asterina stars off the glass .

They are bothering me. I have hundreds of them on the glass and they get into my pumps and cause problems. I can't really drop a predator in there without it going after other stuff like sexy shrimp.

I do use a net sometimes, but they are so small that the sit on the edge of the net. I just doesn't work well.

 

[reeferID]

My tank is a little more than 2 1/2 years old. About 6 months ago, I had what I thought was an explosion of tiny snails too. Now, from the seemingly hundreds in my tank, I bet I can't find 20. They just started disappearing, and are now very few and far between. Hopefully yours will be the same. I suppose my juvenile six line wrasse could be helping.

This sounds a lot like parasitic pyramid snails!

— did your population of herbivorous snails, and any clams decrease before the tiny snail population started dying off?

No, no other problems.

 

[elysics]

dennerle makes one that works quite well if your snails are small enough to fit into it. a kind of shovel wheel that scrapes snails off the glass into a collecting box. Not sure if its available where you are

 

[DexterKarin]

I had an explosion of dwarf ceriths that started getting into equipment. I just started vacuuming/siphoning them up and got the population to where it is manageable.

 

[56longroof]

Throw in some bumblebee snails. They are the saltwater equivalent to assassin snails.