SNAIL Owners BEWARe there is a new monster on Halloween!!!

[victoriaz24]

I have been trying to figure out what has been happening to my red ramshorn snails in my tank. I know that loaches eat them, so I moved the loaches to another tank. Then this morning I found another group of snail shells with no one home, then I found this monster sucking the snails out of their shells!!!




The large female was have a buffet of snails. I have never heard of any Syno eating snails or caught them in the act.

[Birger]

Snails and shrimps are staples for some of the synos of Lake Tanganyika.

For my grandiops they like nothing better than a whole shrimp thrown in the tank and seem to happily chase each other around for it.

Birger

[syno321]

I throw all of the large red ramshorn snails that I find in other tanks into the aquarium that I keep my grandiops in, and it is littered with empty red ramshorn snail shells. I'm just waiting for the price of ramshorn snail shells to go for a meteoric rise on the commoditities market and then I'll retire with the bonanza!