I squished a snail and my fish didn't eat it!

[Drewhop]

My female bettas love snails. I found this out the hard way...... I did not get the memo on them being a natural predator for snails.

 

[thebullit]

i would try it again a fw times, they will soon learn that its food and then bam it wont even touch the floor when you put them in.

 

[Lupin]

I heard clown loaches will make quick work of snails. Do they automatically know snails are food or do you have to introduce them to a new taste?

In the wild, many species of loaches relish invertebrates. Inverts are part of their diet. I regret feeding all of my pond snails and MTS to my loaches.:lipssealedsmilie: Loaches can smell them and can actually recognize them as food.

 

[pixl8r]

I use a spatula to occasionally munch a few MTS in my shrimp tanks. They enjoy picking the shell bits clean. One tank of my Macrobrachium dayanum have learned to eat MTS. The larger shrimp can pry off the trap door and pull out the snail meat. But this is not a common behavior. I have 10 tanks housing that species, and only one tank does this.

 

[thebullit]

universal shrimps )