Anentome helena (assassin snail) eats shrimp?! Yamato shrimp eats snails!?

[EvolutionZ]

i bought 6 to clear snail problem, now theres no more snail, they start eating their own kind. i saw it with my own eyes. im left with about 3 now...

[Fuzzy]

i bought 6 to clear snail problem, now theres no more snail, they start eating their own kind. i saw it with my own eyes. im left with about 3 now...

Oh weird! I saw one try to attack its own kind, I thought it was an accidental encounter.

Red probe of doom came out, prodded another killer snail but it quickly dropped off the glass and crawled away.

Cannibals! eek!

[Aria]

It looks like the Anentome helena is a canivore. I suppose the trick to keeping them is to have enough appropriate preys for them e.g. pest snails. Otherwise we risk them attcking their own kind and worse - our precious shrimp

[Subdave]

Caught my snail eating one of my shrimplets this morning:'(
Thought they can run away feom snail.i was wrong.20140509_073245.jpg