After 5 years of aquaponic activity we needed to cleanup the system.
Slugs are always a problem and we had been keeping them under control .
This year however we let a child help us with the system and she put a snail
into it. Then we had hundreds of little water snails. At first I tried to just catch them
and kill them. After a month or so that was not working and the snails were really multiplying.
The cure ? Clean out the whole system and start over ? Maybe . I am not sure but we are trying to control them naturally before we go that route.
We cleared out the vegetables and put fish into the vegetable troughs. We are not feeding those fish
and we hope they will kill and eat all the snails and slugs too.
I'll let you know in a few weeks if it works.
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