What's eating my Nass snails?

[spiderman097]

Every month or so I go and buy about 10 Nass snails to keep my substrate clean. But after a week or so I just find a whole bunch of empty snails. The substrate has plenty of food I guess, and I have a small handfull of blue-legged hermits which I bought specifically since they are less aggressive than most. I got a couple of turbo's and a sand sifting star fish. I just have no clue what keeps killing my nass's. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[smoothie]

Hermits probably, but if not how are you acclimating them? They are pretty sensitive.
You don't have a conch in there do you?

 

[acroholic]

I'm really starting to dislike hermits for this reason. I don't have any in my 300 and 150 because of all the astreas they killed. I have them in my 60, but only with huge mexican turbos.

 

[gmpolan]

I was under the impression, that the blue were more aggressive than the red...

 

[spacepony]

gmpolan;526135 wrote: i was under the impression, that the blue were more aggressive than the red...

+1

 

[weaglereefer]

Yeah, but the reds are lazy. The blues are cracked out all the time...

 

[tehawesome]

I personally like the black and white leg, but we found some white and purple ones at creation that won't even go after pellets.

 

[mapleredta]

Perhaps your sandbed is not capable of supporting them? They may be starving to death.

 

[spike]

You wouldn't happen to have a pistol shrimp would you? I have not seen mine but a friend has witnessed his eating n. snails. I have a pistol and cannot seem to keep any n. snails.

 

[rale2001]

IME my red leg hermits are the villians in killing my smaller snalls for their shells

 

[ivegotcrabs]

what size tank do you have. if it is not well established sand bed then they are starving to death. way to many cleaners if its a small tank -55