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Thread: Will Assassin Snails attack all other snail species?

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    Re: Will Assassin Snails attack all other snail species?

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    The eggs are laid in a hard case I think and always in spots where fish don't normally forage for food.
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    Re: Will Assassin Snails attack all other snail species?

    I have experience my molting shrimp being feast by assassin snails...
    I normally add them in when there is a over-growth of snails...but once the pest snail is gone...I'll remove them and place them in my planted.
    For what I tried...they don't feast on Limpets....

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    Re: Will Assassin Snails attack all other snail species?

    Limpet too small for them to bother with. Puffer more effective vs Limpets.
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    Re: Will Assassin Snails attack all other snail species?

    It'll required a male and a female assassin snail to reproduce unless the one you have is a fertiled female when you get it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stormhawk View Post
    Limpet too small for them to bother with. Puffer more effective vs Limpets.
    Limpets are those super small button snail? Juveniles are eating them, adults never target them 1st.
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    Re: Will Assassin Snails attack all other snail species?

    No, they are different with oval shaped shells and stay flat against the tank glass. Usually the shell is see-through to opaque ivory color, but the body parts will be yellowish to nearly white. They are very small in size. The species we normally encounter is Acroloxus lacustris.

    http://www.conchsoc.org/aids_to_id/Acro_lac.php

    Button snails have roundish spiral shells that do not form a cone and they either keep it flat against the tank glass or upright like Ramshorn do. They look like miniature versions of ramshorn snails but are probably a different species that remains small.
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