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Old 12-22-2013, 02:27 AM
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Put your clam in a small dish with some sand . The snails burrow in the sand in the daytime . Throw out the sand come day time and scrub and remove them nighttime . Do this until there are no more !

(Also the snails may lay eggs on the sand next to the clam by accident )

Takes about a month to get rid of them but always keep checking
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Won't certain wrasses help with this?
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Put your clam in a small dish with some sand . The snails burrow in the sand in the daytime . Throw out the sand come day time and scrub and remove them nighttime . Do this until there are no more !
Good point for anyone who hasn't read the links

There are lots of wrasses that eat these little terrors, but they can't get them all from deep inside
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Good point for anyone who hasn't read the links

There are lots of wrasses that eat these little terrors, but they can't get them all from deep inside
just making sure he didn't miss that ! Or you could be fighting a loosing battle hehe
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just making sure he didn't miss that ! Or you could be fighting a loosing battle hehe
As I said, good point
You did a good thing
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Put your clam in a small dish with some sand . The snails burrow in the sand in the daytime . Throw out the sand come day time and scrub and remove them nighttime . Do this until there are no more !

(Also the snails may lay eggs on the sand next to the clam by accident )

Takes about a month to get rid of them but always keep checking
I don't have any sand in my tank. It would get blown all over the place anyways.
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Ha

I couldn't find info on the web to nail down the incubation period of these little buggers

Did it say anything in one of the links ? I must have missed it

From what I can find on the web, they can take anywhere from 3-18 days to hatch - temp dependant ....
The OP in one of those threads said they did it for a month. I was hoping maybe they were just OCD or something but ya I guess if you're watching for the eggs to hatch and then the snails get big enough to see, it takes awhile
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The OP in one of those threads said they did it for a month. I was hoping maybe they were just OCD or something but ya I guess if you're watching for the eggs to hatch and then the snails get big enough to see, it takes awhile
Does this mean you will have to scrub your clam every day for up to 3 weeks ?

I guess it'll be very clean by then
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Does this mean you will have to scrub your clam every day for up to 3 weeks ?

I guess it'll be very clean by then
Lol. Im surprised this thread got to page 2 without that kind of comment
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Does this mean you will have to scrub your clam every day for up to 3 weeks ?

I guess it'll be very clean by then
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