Assassin Snails

SmithRC

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Jeez the shrimp must be stupid!!! :D :D

Assasin snails arn't exactly quick (unless mine are not living up to their name!)
 
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macvsog23

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At feed time they all pile on the food the snails just start eating the food next to them then just kinda get closer and closer then latch on to their backs
A cunning strategy.

One my cat has adopted of late with my food
 

GrubbyGirl

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I don't believe it - why didn't I see this before I went and threw a couple of assassins in with my baby cherry shrimp last week??? :wb:

Mind you at least I now know what happened!! I bought the shrimp a couple of weeks ago (cost me way over the odds from my lfs) and they were doing fine until I threw in 2 assassins to kill off the snails....within 2 days they were all dead!! Damn those assassins!! :cry:
 

Doodles

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I don't believe it - why didn't I see this before I went and threw a couple of assassins in with my baby cherry shrimp last week??? :wb:

Mind you at least I now know what happened!! I bought the shrimp a couple of weeks ago (cost me way over the odds from my lfs) and they were doing fine until I threw in 2 assassins to kill off the snails....within 2 days they were all dead!! Damn those assassins!! :cry:
:(

Have you taken them out now?
 

GrubbyGirl

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I haven't yet as all the shrimp are dead - I might just as well let them kill the snails now. I will if I can manage to get any more!
 

scatz

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i have loads of assassins in one of my tanks, but its still over run with shrimp, how do i get the assassins to target them? lol