Snailbalism
- Thread starter DarrylR
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I was doing research on assassin snails a week or two back- (BTW don't have any apples or assassins myself)...
I read one link at the time that implicated apples with occasionally hunting down and killing other snails. The link didn't specify if it was any particular species of apples and it only had one sentence on the subject in a 10 paragraph or so long blurb. (sorry I don't remember the link anymore).
I know there are a lot of different apple species out there and most people who have apples have them coexisting with other snails peacefully...
I don't know if the author of that piece was mistaken- it's a different apple- or if there might indeed be one or two rogue mystery snails out there that get a taste for other snails.
Could be the
I read one link at the time that implicated apples with occasionally hunting down and killing other snails. The link didn't specify if it was any particular species of apples and it only had one sentence on the subject in a 10 paragraph or so long blurb. (sorry I don't remember the link anymore).
I know there are a lot of different apple species out there and most people who have apples have them coexisting with other snails peacefully...
I don't know if the author of that piece was mistaken- it's a different apple- or if there might indeed be one or two rogue mystery snails out there that get a taste for other snails.
Could be the
Canas are considered "apple" or "mystery" snails and they will eat other snails. I have seen my Bridgesii finish off a dead ramshorn or a ramshorn that was dieing, but have never seen any of mine purposely kill any other snail.
That same night I saw the huge one chomp on a snail, around midnight I was watching the tank and in the front right corner was the grape sized brigg eating a snail. Literally licking and sucking inside of the shell like the assassin snails do. I feed Shirakura pellets, tropical flakes, algae wafers and veggies. Plenty of food, I will just have to watch my tank more closely.
My brigs are all well fed, (snail jello, fresh veggies, shrimp pellets, ken't invert pellets, flake food, algae wafers). So htere is really no reason for them to take down bladder and ramshorn snails. But, they occasionally do. And it seems to be the wild type/ DSO ones that do it.
Just because you are feeding plenty does not particularly mean that all dietary needs are being met... I would suspect a deficiency, or something that is causing the other snails to die, and the briggs are just being opportunistic.
Kristina
Kristina
I'm going to throw some ramshorns back into my brigs' tank. And actually watch them and see what happens. All I know is they never made it before, but I'd never really paid attention as to why since they brigs were okay and they were the ones that were supposed to be there.
Hey Lupin/Msjinkzd/etc, would something in the tank kill the ramshorns but not the brigs (ie. tank conditions, etc)? Giving them the opportunity to scavenge to ramshorns, or is it really possible that they do hunt?
Hey Lupin/Msjinkzd/etc, would something in the tank kill the ramshorns but not the brigs (ie. tank conditions, etc)? Giving them the opportunity to scavenge to ramshorns, or is it really possible that they do hunt?
