- 1). Keep a good supply of plants in the aquarium. Snails are scavengers and will eat dying plants while allowing healthy plants to thrive.
- 2). Don't clean your aquarium too well. As scavengers the snails will do much of the cleaning for you, and they need dead plant and animal material as well as algae to survive.
- 3). Populate the aquarium with snail-friendly fish. Guppies, neon tetras, danios, and white cloud minnows will not view the snails as a threat or as prey.
- 1). Don't overfeed your fish. If there are leftover food particles three to four minutes after you've fed your fish, you have given them too much. Snails will eat the excess food and grow in numbers.
- 2). Heat a lettuce leaf by running hot water over it, then lay it on the bottom of your aquarium and keep it in place with a stone. Remove the lettuce in the morning and you should find a number of snails stuck to it. Dispose of them as desired and repeat the process until your snail population is manageable.
- 3). Consider using fish like loaches or catfish that will eat the snails, but keep an eye on your snail population or you mightlose them all.
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