Red Cherry Shrimp Out-Compete Pest Snails?

[Ryan12]

Hello all!
I have about a dozen adult red cherry shrimps and they have begun breeding quite prolifically. I also have a bunch of pest snails (my best guess is some pond snails and maybe some ramshorn snails). My main question is will the red cherries ever create so many baby shrimps and subsequently become adults to out-compete these pests. The snails main food source is probably my plants, though i don't think they are munching on them all that much, so they are being subsidized with my feeding. I have begun manually catching them and reducing my feedings, what i understand is a pretty good option of getting rid/reducing their numbers.

 

[Carlovel1]

What about adding a single Assassin snail to kill the other snails. However I dont know if these eat the baby shrimp.
Carl

 

[Mikaila31]

that won't happen. You add food and snails will exists. You starve the tank enough to kill shrimps and snails will still exist. Feeding shrimp and starving snails doesn't work. BTW those are probably my snails unless you had them before those plants.

 

[Ryan12]

that won't happen. You add food and snails will exists. You starve the tank enough to kill shrimps and snails will still exist. Feeding shrimp and starving snails doesn't work. BTW those are probably my snails unless you had them before those plants.

a good chunk of them were yours, but i had a few pond snails from the LFS around here. thanks for the info...i totally forgot about how these snails will probably outlive the cockroaches.

 

[stevereade]

Just get an Assassin Snail mate, I have one in my planted tank, he disappears from time to time and when the snails start breeding and theres a few around he comes out of hiding and eats them all.

 

[Ryan12]

would they attempt to eat the baby or adult shrimp though, as per carlove's concern?

 

[stevereade]

No chance, think about the speed shrimp move at and the speed snails move at, assassin snails suck snails from their shells so they wont bother shrimp.

 

[philja]

No chance, think about the speed shrimp move at and the speed snails move at, assassin snails suck snails from their shells so they wont bother shrimp.

All of a sudden I want an Assassin Snail. Sounds cool, and I've noticed a few snails since my last plant purchase.