ISTA Snail Trap & Free Bait for Aquarium Fish Plants Tank Planarian Leech Catch

This snail trap works well for those prolific bladder snails that can quickly take over a planted aquarium. This device is simple to use, sinks to the bottom, is easy to retrieve, twist open and reload with more bait. It took a few days for the snails to be attracted to it. Once they found it I have been able to clear out a lot of snails. The snails flick off easy enough. I put them into a glass jar with a little bit of water and fill it quickly with boiling water to annihilate them as fast as possible. The snail bait that is provided works, but I found that the algae wafers that I have to feed my mystery snail seems to attract the bladder snails a little better, though not by much. It was worth the purchase for me.

Save your money as this product, sadly, does not work. I had ordered plants (elsewhere) several months ago and literally the day after they arrived, I was in a wreck. No hospital stay but to say I was hurting like crazy would be an understatement so the plants stayed put in the box they came in for an extra day or two. When I knew that I had no choice but to get the plants in the tank, I was hurting to much to do the usual 1 part bleach:1 part water plant bath to ensure there were no snail eggs so of course I ended up with a HUGE snail infestation. I stopped feeding my fish and shrimp in an attempt to starve off some of the snails but they simply turned to eating all of my plants, including the new ones 😫. There has to be well over 100 snails in my tank with only a piece or two of plant life left so I purchased this with the hopes that it would work. It does not. I followed the directions and well, you can see in the picture that only 1 snail happened to be on a rock I had to put in the tray to hold it down (as the trap would not sink on it's own) but that was the only snail that was 'caught'. I even purchased an extra trap (the smaller one) and it also 'caught' zero snails as is shown in the video. Think I'll take the few fish I have along with my shrimp and shove them into my little 3 gallon with a prayer that they survive while I simply put bleach in my 40 gallon and start over.

So this really works! The string was a little bit of a pain to get into the top but otherwise this thing is great. What ever the bait is, well it really attracts the snails. Before this I was basically wasting my shrimp food lolly sticks - the snails loved the sticks but after a day the food would get soft and when I pull the stick out and try to get the snails off...I'd lose quite a bit of food. So I come to find this trap and it's awesome! I set it up before going to bed and woke up with a trap full of snails. Pulled it out, cleaned them off and put it back simple. Now it's not actually a trap but it attracts the snails and they just chill there trying to get the food. 3x now and I got rid of at least 100 snails. I got an infestation from a live plant I purchased and was completely over run. It's taken me probably 2 weeks to get rid of the same amount as a day and a half with this trap. When I take the trap out of the fish tank I lower it into a gallon size bag and just slap the trap from the outside of the bag and the snails all get knocked out into the bag for easy clean up. Plenty of bait in a recloseable bottle so you can save it for later if needed.

We have pond snails in our aquarium that were inadvertently introduced from plants we added and we bought this hoping to control the *rapid* population growth. The plastic is fragile and broke in transit. A little CA super glue fixed that. The provided bait does attract the snails, but it isn't really a "trap". The snails can leave it easily. So, you have to remove and clean it daily to have any effect. It's not really possible to eliminate the snails with this. Still using it for now, but we are looking for a better way to deal with the problem.

I had to use that title since it was an option for this review. I don't know how Amazon's algorithms figured that one out, but after a lengthy inspection and a few PowerPoints I've determined that no suction is needed for this snail trap. I've only used it once and it seems to work okay. As you can see from the pic, Amazon stuck the bar code label over the English instructions (the other side was in Chinese), so I had to wing it and figure out how much bait to use because there's no instructions inside the box. I might try sticking some cucumber in there next time I order a salad somewhere, since people have been saying aquarium snails are attracted to cucumbers. They repeat on me, so I'm sure tossing some in a fish tank is a viable option.

Work amazing fast too The first 24 hrs my son got about 30

Does not work, only thing it did was raise my nitrates🤦🏻‍♀️. Product was easy enough to use but never saw more the one snail on it. Definitely did not help with my snail infestation. Save yourself the money and buy a zebra loach.

This thing works if you don’t have bottom feeders in the tank. I have three tanks in my house and two of them have assassin snail infestations. In one tank, I was able to catch TONS of snails in multiple rounds on the same day. However, I had issues catching more than a few snails at a time in the second tank because the loaches and Cori’s were eating the pellets and knocking the snails off the catcher. Maybe the people who reported that the product doesn’t work also have bottom feeders getting in the way?

bien reçu merci

Was skeptical after reading the reviews Needed something to catch the snails But it worked efficiently not to zero

If your tank is over populated by trumpet snails and you want to reduce their numbers this is the right stuff for you. Place the food (comes with the trap or use algae waffles) inside the trap, leave it in the tank and empty it in the morning. Repeat until it you need to. More convenient than removing them one by one with a tweezer. It won't work with bladder snails, at least I haven't found the right food that would attract them :)

Je confirme, ca fonctionne. Et ce n'est pas toxique pour les crevettes. Ca réduit rapidement la population d'escargots, qui devient vite hors contrôle dans un aquarium. J'étais très sceptique, mais j'avoue que je suis maintenant convaincu après avoir retiré au minimum 150 escargots... en une seule journée. et toutes les crevettes sont bien sur restées dans l'aquarium.. génial.

the item came in undamaged. but the snails were not attracted towards this food !. nothing happened. Can anyone else leave a message if this worked ?