Topic: Pond snails

[Toadspawn]

Does anyone have any idea how I can remove/drastically reduce (to the point of elimination) the water snails in my wildlife pond. There are too many to pick out by hand and there are so many small ones that are easily missed.

Currently other occupants include frog tadpoles (until they are eaten) newts, dragon fly larvae, large diving beetle, other water beetles, water boatmen, leeches and presumably a lot of other things. I do not want to damage them. However, it would be nice if this year a few of the tadpoles managed to make it to the frog stage. I hope to acquire some toadspawn and/or toad tadpoles and/or mating toads.

[elhuerto]

I was reading up on snails yesterday as somebody suggested introducing a couple to our pond. I'm not going to but one article I read suggested dangling a carrot in the water. This apparently attracts the snails, you can then take it out, strip all the snails from it and then repeat. I have no idea if this works but I guess it can't do much harm.

[gordonsveg]

We cleared out over a 100 from a small pond just using a childs seaside net with a long handle, will probably get a load more as soon as we can get out to the pond again(shortage of time).

[Angel]

I put six in my little pond last year and I havent seen them since  ???

[GRACELAND]

not had many in my pond never gets out of control