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Re: [GSAS-Member] Snailacide
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- Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Snailacide
- From: Matt Staroscik <matt@wrongcrowd.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:23:29 -0800
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I have never tried it myself... but I would be surprised if a snail-killing
dose of copper would be soaked up by the plants and carried along into the
shrimp tank. Rinse the plants well, even soaking them in rinse water for a
day or two with a couple of water changes and you'd probably be OK.
I think a more interesting question is, will the snail-killing stuff work on
snail eggs? They may be coated or otherwise protected in a way that hatched
snails are not--ich is like that, only vulnerable to copper in the
free-swimming stage.
Good luck!
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Susan Welenofsky <welenofsky@comcast.net>wrote:
> I am planning on moving all my shrimp and fish into a new home, but don't
> want to bring the snails along with the plants. Is there some kind of
> treatment that will kill the snails and their eggs? I will do the plants
> separate from the shrimp of course, but hope that the foliage won't absorb
> the copper or whatever else chemicals and kill the shrimp. I have potassium
> permanganate, but I don't know how affective it is. My target is ramshorns
> and a flat native snail that rode in on some hornwort.
>
> Susan
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