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New tank for goldfish, but a snail?

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New tank for goldfish, but a snail?

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Thanks for advice. Unfortunately in need of some more help. As you suggested below i managed to bait the snails with some food and after removing 3 i haven’t seen anymore. However, even though there are no fish in the tank the ammonia level remains high – the level in the tank is 1.0 (I’ve checked the tap water and there is no problem there with ammonia and the pH value is 8) as does the nitrite level (level 0.25) . I had noticed some small white ‘thread’ like debris in the tank that looked like dead worms and white dust like material that seemed to be gathering on the leaves of the plants. To address this i took out the plants and rinsed them in a dilute bleach solution. After rinsing in dechlorinated water i put just one of the plants back along with some rinsed hornwort from a friends pond.. I

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