Who is killing my snails?

[rk4435]

I'm not sure who the perp is but I feel like I am renting snails. I'll provide a list of suspects.

Tomini Tang
Rusty Angel
Flame hawk
Purple Pseudochromis
Diamond Goby (really doubt it he is preoccupied redecorating the tank)
Green Chromis (5 of them)

Any guesses?

 

[nickg]

Hawk, maybe?? none of the others

 

[heathlindner25]

Do you have crabs... they're little killers

 

[dball711]

heathlindner25;898192 wrote: Do you have crabs... they're little killers

Mainly hermits looking for shells.

 

[rdnelson]

heathlindner25;898192 wrote: Do you have crabs...

Getting kind of personal aren't you????


I am going on a cruise.....on my lawnmower around my yard.

 

[w_hartyjr]

I would say the crabs also

 

[jdavid]

heathlindner25;898192 wrote: Do you have crabs... they're little killers

dball711;898211 wrote: Mainly hermits looking for shells.

w_hartyjr;898249 wrote: I would say the crabs also

I witnessed 3 hermits killing an overturned astrea snail the other day. They're little murderers. The messed up part is I have a pile of shells of various sizes for them in the tank

rdnelson99;898239 wrote: Getting kind of personal aren't you????


I am going on a cruise.....on my lawnmower around my yard.

lol

 

[rk4435]

Yes I do have crabs! After I posted this I flipped by sole surviving turbo snail over and broke of two hermits fighting at the other end. Like JDavid I have a ton of shells in the tank, I guess they kill for the thrill.

 

[rjrgroup]

Any peppermints?

 

[bluespot]

I am throwing my hat in for the hermits too. They will kill snails as they grow to get bigger shells. You can have a whole pile of shells available but they may be too small for what the crab is looking for and they then kill a live snail. Some of my hermits I have are only about a year old and already toting around shells from giant tonga nassarius snails. Big jokers are going for a trade in at lfs. They can easily topple frags.

 

[rk4435]

Peppermint shrimp too. I do not plan to replace them as they disappear.

 

[falos]

hermit crabs will kill snails for there shells and for food i wohld spot feed them 1 time a week or be prepaired to add lots of snals if you have hermits its not the hawkfish as they would eat them first

 

[rk4435]

Thanks falos, at this point I may have a bit of a crisis, I have a ton of hermit crabs!

 

[ringo®]

Astrea snails? Don't rule out the hawk flipping them over and the crabs finishing them off.

 

[rk4435]

Astrea, Naserith (sp) and turbos. I think all of the turbos are toast now.

 

[heathlindner25]

turbos are cold water animals, they're only temporary anyway to get rid of a problem. be careful on the turbos dying it's a small tank phosphates will go through the roof.