snails!

[jread002]

sorry if this is in the wrong forum

i have a 60gal FW tank with my gsp in it.
I am planning on starting to add salt this weeknd.
i try to feed him some pond snails atleast a few times a week
a few weeks ago i notices a few coming out of one of my filter inlets.
Didnt thnk it would be a problem, accually thought it might save me from getting snails from LPS
all the time. Fastforward a few weeks and and within a few days of noticing a increase i can literaly
see 30-40 snails without trying to look for them. Gizmo dosnt seem to be paying any attention to them, normaly he goes nuts for snails.Im worried this could become a major problem. my tank has no live plants , everything either plastic or silk.


Will adding the salt with my weekly WC kill off the snails within a few weeks?
should i try not feeding him for a few days and see if he will start to bring the snails under
control himself. ( dont thinks thats possiable at this point though, to many, also i see a bunch of small clear egg sacks
with white dots in them)
im also worried that once he starts eating them he might over do it. Happen before when i put to many in, all of them were goin in a few minutes.

any advice would be great . never delt with snails before.

thankx

P.S as far as i can tell they are normal pond snails you get from buying plants at LPS

[Pufferpunk]

They may be too small right now for him to bother with. I'm not sure what SG will kill them but eventually it will.

[Flutter]

Mhm, if they're too small he may not see them as food yet. Fasting for a couple days is a good idea. How large are the snails compared to him?

[Pufferpunk]

Sounds to me like, hatchlings.

[jread002]

90% of the snails that are visable are adult size , same size as i feed him normaly
aprox the size of his eye or a little smaller. Gizmo is about 2 - 2 1/2 in
im really clueless as to why he pays them no mind, and that after having this tank up for 5+ months with regular snail feedings they just all the sudden infest now
can alittle leftover food not taken out of tank be part of the cause

[jread002]

would it help to clean/replace the sponges in my filters. im sure atleast some are coming from there. or thats atleast were it started

[bertie 83]

I have been experiencing a boom myself I just trap and remove. Remember when the salt does kill them I would expect the corpses to affect your water quality so keep a close eye and remove visible snail eggs to keep population of small snails down I wish I had done this from the start

[Pufferpunk]

Rubberband a piece of cucumber or zucchini to a rock & pull them all out on there in the morning. I'd start raising them elsewhere though.