My assassin snail Christmas miracle

[hollyfish2000]

So I'm going to do a water change and I pull out the two buckets that the tank water goes into and at the bottom is a dried up assasin snail.

Now that annoys me for several reasons -- how are they ending up through the siphon ?????????? as the MTS don't (and this wasn't the first time). But most annoying is that they aren't cheap, they have a big job to do and I don't want to lose even one. But there he was, all dried up (it had been several days since I'd last used the bucket) and I decided, WTH, and I dropped him back in the tank.

He lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[samsmobb]

That's the bad thing about snails unfortunately.

I've hard several snails survive after storing gravel for weeks
My assassin snails lay eggs like crazy but how much do they sell for? I was given mine to me by a friend lol

 

[mchambers]

They usually go for $1-2 each. Mine have been feasting on mts for a while now, and I think the assassins are reproducing themselves. Unfortunately, I've still got more mts than I want.

Amazing that Holly's snail survived. I have no doubt that my Malaysian trumpet snails would survive a large asteroid striking my neighborhood, however.

 

[Leffler817]

I bought a used tank with crushed coral in it. I left it empty for about three weeks plus the time it was empty prior to me getting it. One night I discovered a tank full of MTS! Now I have a few assassin snails working their way through the tank. I used to find empty mts shells on the floor and on the glass lids of tanks below the tank with the snails.


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[hollyfish2000]

I'm convinced that MTS and cockroachs will survive Armageddeon (sp)

 

[Andrewtfw]

I'm convinced that MTS and cockroachs will survive Armageddeon (sp)

I thought twinkies could too, but they couldn't survive the economy.

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[Andrewtfw]

Will assasin snails eat other foods once the snail population is depleted?

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Will assasin snails eat other foods once the snail population is depleted?

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What I have heard is you can maintain the population with meaty foods, but to get them to breed you need to have snails for them to prey on.

 

[hollyfish2000]

I will not live long enough for my assassin snails to do away with all the MTS in my tank. It's like a freaking Stephen King novel with those freaking things.

 

[hollyfish2000]

Here is my miracle snail. I thought this was odd -- him being up on a plant without a MTS in sight - and made an interesting picture with his tube and other assorted body parts all stretched out just so

 

[zcfish]

When I first got my assassin snails I put them in a small container with some snails from the tank. They crawl on top of each other for a few days but I didn't see any snail eaten. They're in my snail-infested tank now still alive but I still don't know if they eat snails.

 

[hollyfish2000]

Oh, and I now also have assasin baby snails! I am very excited about that!

Can I just tell you how exciting it is to see empty MTS shells in the tank????

OK, clearly I need a life

 

[mchambers]

Assassin Snails

Oh, and I now also have assasin baby snails! I am very excited about that!

Can I just tell you how exciting it is to see empty MTS shells in the tank????

OK, clearly I need a life

I guess I do too, because I had the same reaction when I saw empty shells, and the substrate was no longer crawling with MTS when the lights went out.

I put 5 or so Assassins in a 20 long. After a few months, I wasn't seeing any MTS, so I started moving the Assassins to another infested tank. I didn't count, but it seemed like I moved at least 10 Assassins.