How To Remove Snails From Your Aquarium!!! Sera Snail Trap Review

A lot of people, like myself, get easily frustrated at pest snails in their aquarium. While they aren't bad at first, they can quickly take over and become a nuisance. I think I may have found the solution on how to remove snails from your aquarium with the Sera Snail Trap!
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[@DilettanteCulture]

How do you deal with snails?

[@gabegaming8216]

Snails are ok but I don’t like being over run with them

[@thirsty1629]

I’ve had a snail outbreak before and there’s signs of snails emerging in a newer tank. So far I’ve been pipetting snail eggs I see into a used jam jar and pouring boiling water over them to kill them. I’ve also been trying to bait Amano shrimp to start eating the eggs with the boiled ones, but no luck so far. If I start seeing more snails I’ll drop a cucumber and boil the snails alive.

[@AllSigmasLetItCrust]

I feed my snails to my cousins turtle

[@Anonymous-gh3wc]

Siphon them out

[@phreakerbythespeaker9902]

My assassin snails, pea puffers, and zebra loaches all love them 😉 On another note, I made a snail trap out of a clear plastic food cup with various sized holes with a food wafer inside. As long as it is pulled with max capacity, it's great!

[@AussieAquatic]

First time I've seen it...........Looks Great!!

[@MridulSinghMusic]

I've made a snail catcher before, and if I had a way to post a picture here describing my design, I would. When I had a larger fish room and wanted to harvest snails for my puffers, I made my own catcher. I haven't seen this done anywhere, so I decided to share with everyone. What you need is some egg crate, 1 inch diameter clear PVC (or any tube really), aquarium safe super glue, and 1 cap for the tubing. Cut up several pieces (I do at least 6) of egg crate that can fit snugly in the tube. Using as little glue as possible, attach the pieces together, rotating the alignment slightly each time, so that when you look down the pieces you can't see through to the other side. Once the glue dries (this is important so that the fitting does not permanently seal itself to the tubing), put the fitting into the tube. You have a cheap, and efficient snail catcher now! All you need to do is put some food in, and put the catcher in the tank. The reason I rotate the pieces of egg crate is because I have found that fry, small fish, and shrimp are not comfortable navigating through the 'spiral' created by the egg crate, and so only the snails get caught. Only once I got some CPD fry stuck in the trap, but that was because I had forgotten to put the egg crate in, and decided to do it underwater.

[@pratigyat3201]

Please post a short video....very interesting !

[@samanthaf7492]

I was warned about a snail infestation when I had purchased some plants from my local pet store, gratefully I only found one... but I honestly love snails, so I stuck him in with my betta and they’re good friends so far, but I don’t need an infestation, I’ll stick with my nerite and mystery snails, love them!

[@dilloncarson5468]

I bought mine on ebay. Shipped from France. Agree that algae wafers are the way to got. Used tetramin brand wafers.

[@amymanoharan284]

For my nano planted aquariums I use assassin snails, for my larger tanks (that don't have shrimp) I use yoyo loaches. For my larger shrimp tanks, I MAY use assassin snails... but I mostly make what I call 'parashoot' traps. They are bottle caps or larger lids with three pieces of fishing line hooked to them. I put treats (like sinking algae wafers) in the middle, and they attach to a ping pong ball that floats at the top. I let it sit on the bottom till there are enough snails, then I lift it up, and put them in my tanks with the loaches because they do so a good job... they get hungry!

[@EpicConspiracy]

Mine arrived today. Took 3 weeks from UK. Paid 27$ Its currently jam packed full of MTS in my 75 gallon. I used algae wafer as bait.

[@cameronadams1125]

You gonna do an update on the 75, looks as though it’s changed a bit

[@frankieg3933]

I have this and it works awesome! Picked it up from amazon for $13 but that was a couple of years ago. I used omega one algae wafers and worked well.

[@yubstep]

Can you send me the link? I can't find it on my Amazon

[@frankieg3933]

@@yubstep I checked on Amazon and they no longer sell it but it’s the sera snail collect 8585. It works great if you can find it.

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

I see some promote Ramshorn snails as part of the natural aquarium ecosystem. Wrong. They will and do eat ornamental plants and I suspect them of eating the roots of epiphytic plants like Anubias and Bolbitis. Gravel snails are alright. But,Ramshorn and Mystery snails?..not if you want plants to look good.

[@stevenwatson2852]

They sell them at some Petco stores

[@do1du]

DIY water bottle

[@yubstep]

I can't find that contraception on your site and Amazon. What gives???

[@rickt.foster7901]

Where the heck can you find this thing?? Can’t find it anywhere. 😔

[@richardmccullum9604]

Petco has them now. January 2, 2024

[@vb2377]

Or get a goldfish that gobbles them up

[@aquariumtreasures1054]

Where do you put them after you catch them? 🐌👍

[@rebeccawilkinson6616]

I had the same question. Can you tell us what you do with the snails once you have caught them?

[@KamotoSam]

I can't find this any where other than eBay and it's like $35+

[@CarolynnMc01]

Hi Michael! Thank you fo giving info about this snail trap. I hand pick my trumpets out of te tank daily. I have a population explosion, as well. I toss them into the trash because i don't know anyone who has puffer fish or another type of fish which would eat them. I even advertised here in the Bay Area.. In any case, do you think it's ok to dispose of them into my kitchen trash (I use plastic garbage bags). I was feeling concerned because they are an invasive species. Thank you if you see this and can respond. Have a great day too.

[@SegwayJesus523]

Why don’t you just humanely cull them if anything? I would ask your LFS if they would take them but just throwing them in the trash is pretty cruel.

[@CarolynnMc01]

@@SegwayJesus523 can’t feed to the birds- they are invasive. Give me your address and I will gladly mail them I do kill them before they go into the trash. But any way you slice it, I didn’t say it was fun or pleasant. You seem like a moron

[@greatfactualnewsie1347]

@@CarolynnMc01 yikes he was just stating to humanely cull them. You didn’t really specify.

[@CarolynnMc01]

@@greatfactualnewsie1347 He was being condescending

[@d.b9743]

@@CarolynnMc01 I think they are just suggesting you consider a more humane approach, as throwing them in the bin to dehydrate slowly for hours/days is a little cruel

[@wendygillard2133]

I just bought this trap & think it is a lousy design. The plastic spacer sticks keep falling out. When I put it in the tank the spacer sticks came out & floated to the top. I will be returning it to the shop!

[@Winddancer1991]

Huh, I just bought one and literally had to use every spacer stick to keep my fish out. They worked fine however, my smaller fish can still get in (idk how in the F they managed that) and my bigger snails can’t fit through. Fml

[@mariaarroyo2239]

Just out of curiosity what? Did you do with the snails?

[@DilettanteCulture]

I crush them and throw them away.

[@mariaarroyo2239]

@@DilettanteCulture 😱😱😱😱😱 Chompers is so upset with you! He said he will need them for the future! Lol

[@chaoticsofea999]

I have problem with snail,dk what type it is since theyre really small but my aquascapes tank is filleddddd with it.but then i thought of collect some of the snails and drop it into my cousin tank,they gonna be nuts about it.Good prank to just see aquaris suffer

[@Winddancer1991]

That is evil

[@jesuseinzigerettung]

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[@nickschmitz7044]

Dayum cuz you need a drink you are shaking more than MJ Fox!!!

[@stevenporritt5961]

Painful, overdesigned contraption. Catches small fish. Terrible to empty .... you have to take the thing apart. Sera tablets are tank polluters.

[@AntAciieed]

You're absolutely using incorrectly then

[@Winddancer1991]

@@AntAciieedno he’s right. Just tried last night, I used all the plastic things to keep my small fish out, they still got in (idk how) but then they were trapped, and as they have to go to the surface for air I can’t even leave the snail catcher in there without risking losing my smaller fish Edit: and by using all the plastic things to keep fish out, I literally used every hole with the plastic sticks, so much so that the bigger snails can’t fit through, but somehow my small fish can….fml

[@rassurn5715]

You only talking no doing nothing

[@ratsaremagic]

Now that is rubbish and you still make a video of it! Nobody has time to 'fish out' snails every day. Everybody wants their voices heard on videos but nobody has a damn concrete scientific answer!!

[@Winddancer1991]

😂 the contraption is supposed to be left in there for as long as the food bait remains, however it is such a bad design that you have to fish it out every other hour or so to let your fish trapped inside out so they can breathe at the surface. I just bought one, waste of money. Literally put the thing in and 15 minutes later 8 of my fish were trapped inside. I maxed out the plastic spacers to keep fish out, and now my smallest fishes can still get in and the bigger snails can’t. DUMB