Re: [GSAS-Member] spontaneous snail generation

["Matt Staroscik" <matt@wrongcrowd.com>]

The pea puffer should tear through them even at full size. From what I have
seen, they'll go after the snail's foot, not the shell. I had them clean out
a population of 1 cm + Malaysian cone snails.

On Dec 7, 2007 6:09 AM, Clifford Miller <clifford@clevergeek.com> wrote:

>
> Yup!  I'm not sure if they can bother them at full size (the clear,
> flatish snails I'm talking about get to around a 1/2 cm), but they can
> sure pick off the small ones.  I've also watched them dine on other snail
> eggs, fish eggs, and they seem particularly fond of some sort of skinny
> ~1cm long nematode that has started showing up in my daphnia tanks.
> (which I kind of wish they wouldn't eat, because my fry seem to like the
> nematodes as much as the daphnia).
>
> Cliff
>
>
> > The ramshorns eat the other snails???
> >
> > Susan
> >
> > I just target kill the ones on the glass I can see (they seem content to
> > hang out on the glass, which makes them easy to spot, and they don't
> move
> > much), and I noticed that my largish (anything approaching an inch or
> so)
> > ramshorn snails attack and eat them. (but I guess that doesn't help if
> > larger ramshorns don't stay alive in your tanks...)
> >
> > Cliff
>
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