limpet removal

They bloom twice a year for about a month each time, just wait and theyll go away. Right now they are blooming, same with my tanks.

Thanks. I hope mine follow the same schedule as yours.

Some people say that limpets will die out after a while, but I have limpets inside 2 of my tanks for a year now and my limpet population is stronger than ever. From my experience the only way to remove them is a hard reset.

I've just about given up trying to remove the limpets in my tanks. I just try my best to no infect my newer tanks with limpets. I just treat the existing ones like snails. I pretend they're my little clean up crew to cope with the fact that I have limpets.

Excel kills them. I'm about to Excel the hell out of my 13g to kill them and the mini-ramshorns before I get shrimp.

-Lisa

Do you have to OD the Excel or can you just dose normal doses? My tank is overrun with limpets too ): Stupid me, I saw one and thought... what a neat little creature, it's not doing anyone any harm and I never see it move. Little did I know I'd have hundreds in weeks. But I can't OD Excel because I have a ton of moss balls in the tank and I've already killed them once doing just that.

Would excel harm the shrimp?

Low tech guy here <-----

You'd have to OD the excel — beyond the OD amount you'd use to treat algae — because Excel never killed my limpets. Limpets are basically snails. I've never heard of Excel killing them, but maybe if you nuke the entire tank or something?

I got rid of mine with assassin snails. It was actually by accident since I had given up on getting rid of them. I had limpets in my 5g RCS tank for several years and nothing worked. When I put assassin snails in the tank, the limpets disappeared. It's been months now, and I haven't seen any since.

Awesome, I bought an assassin snail just in the hopes that he would get hungry enough to eat the limpets. He hasn't made a dent yet but I'm hopeful.

I agree on the Excel not killing them, I triple dose Excel on my 50g high tech tank and its having a limpet bloom right now.

I just smoosh the larger ones. Not sure if the bloom dies down but killing the larger ones definitely stops egg laying.

FriendsNotFood said:

Awesome, I bought an assassin snail just in the hopes that he would get hungry enough to eat the limpets. He hasn't made a dent yet but I'm hopeful.

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I had about 5 in my 5g RCS tank. I let them lay eggs, then I removed them. They eventually ate every snail in the tank. So I don't know if they went for the limpets first or because that's all that was left. Now the assassins eat along side the shrimp (they really love replashy) since the snails are all gone.

i want limpets..... my oebt ate them all i thought they were cool

Wait what... your OEBTs eat limpets? Please explain. I have OEBTs in another tank, I'd be willing to risk putting a couple in with the betta if they ate the damn limpets! I'll mail you 100 limpets for free if you want.

Just what is so bad about limpets?

will5 said:

Just what is so bad about limpets?

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Haha that's what I thought until they exploded. Cute when there's one, REALLY unsightly when there's hundreds of little white flying saucer looking things attached to the glass.

mordalphus said:

I agree on the Excel not killing them, I triple dose Excel on my 50g high tech tank and its having a limpet bloom right now.

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It did for me. And it killed the mini-ramshorns. The only change in that tank was the Excel and they all started dying.

-Lisa

I thought assassins won't touch these things?

For some reason... they all died out after I neglected my RCS tank for like 1-2 weeks. like i didnt even turn on the lights so it was dark for the tank. I had 10 RCS and 3 amanos in there. Then i turned on the lights and bam all the limpets are gone and about 3 or 4 rcs's

will5 said:

Just what is so bad about limpets?

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Like any other pests, it makes me feel like my tank is dirty. Like I made some noob mistake, like not dipping my plants or overfeeding. I guess they make me feel like I somehow failed. But I'm overly hard on myself.

-Lis