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I'd like to get a population of snails going in the lake. I plan on putting some Redears in and thought that may help out a bit. Any ideas of where to get snails. The lake is located in GI. Any disadvantage of having snails? I just think they would be a nice extra food source for the fish. I have no idea why there are not any snails right now. Plenty of rocks and cat tails.
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Do you subscribe to PondBoss mag? You should if you don't already.
![]() EDIT - I guess I can add a little bit more, just for discussion purposes. From everything I have read about snails, which admittedly has been little, I get the impression they'll show up on their own, no need to stock them. But if you have an established pond and aren't seeing any, well then, I'm stumped too. Last edited by Omaha; 09-23-2009 at 03:48 PM.. |
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That's one magazine I should get. I'll check them out.
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I Dunno much about snails but my best freinds folks live on Hedgefeild lake and a few years back some people introduced these larger snails to it and they freaking took over! seriously! they where everywhere! Then periodically you'd see those people down there harvisting them! Pissed me off because it's illegal to introduce new species to an environment.
If I remember correctly I don't think anyone ever found out what species these where either!
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Oh yeah! there where THOUSANDS of them! I'm not even kidding... most where 2-3" in Dia and 1-2" wide... Some kind of Asian snail. I wonder how they are going to be assured of having them all gone after the lake is done? I would think that there is a chance you could miss one or Two in the mud somewhere and end up having the same problem.
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Ha, yeah I don't have the slightest clue how you would get rid of an army of snails. But you said they were doing something to the lake to fix the problem? What was it they were going to do?
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The lake is drained for rehab right now and I assumed the eradication of them darn things would be on the list of To-Dos!
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Man, I would think the only way to get rid of them would be poison. Jeez, that was a stupid thing to do. Send them the damn bill.
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Looks like draining will fix the issue. Phew.
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If that ended up being a Hi-Jack I'm sorry... Hopefully however it ended up being usefull to show how invaseive species can become!
Good Luck on your project!
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I found the snails I need. They are really tiny black snails. A forum member has offered some to me and I also found a lake that has the right snails so I should be in business. Hopefully they will be another food source for the fish. Maybe, just maybe, our lake will be producing some quality gills in a year or so. There's still a bunch of work to do but it's starting to get better all the time.
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I've seen those little black snails. If you go to a lake that has coontail in it, you can usually grab a handfull of it and its loaded with the snails. It gave me new perspective on why bluegills don't drop into the basin until most of the weeds die in winter.
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Yes there is coontail in it. I'm trying to think of a way to plant a coon tail patch. I think I have a plan. If it works I'll post it. I'm not sure of the name of the snails yet but they are very little black snails.
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