Welcome To The Assassin's Banquet

[TwoTankAmin]

I though folks might enjoy seeing what happens when one drops Hikari algae wafers into a tank with some assassin snails
 

 

 

[CASIN0]

All mine do is mate! Still have the same amount of snails.

 

[Chad]

Some! I have 3 and they killed every pond snail I had...

 

[PrairieSunflower]

Wow!  I have algae wafers (not sure what brand) and they never do that!

 

[TallTree01]

Wow! Would hate to be that algae wafer. Do assassins eat each other or can they differentiate between food and friend?

 

[DrRob]

I have neither snails nor assassins now, but that's a feature of having central american cichlids I suspect. My ellioti seem to like eating snails, and I have about 50 of them at the moment spread across various tanks. It's a method of clearing snails that I hadn't tried before but is proving very effective.
 
When I had assassins they never did much more than bury themselves and eventually die off. Would love to know how you got so many, they've been a bogey stocking item for me.

 

[the_lock_man]

I have certainly had that same thing happening when I had oodles of assassins. In my case, the hilarious part was watching the cories shoving the assassins out of the way. 9/10 the assassins would land upside down.

 

[DreamertK]

And here I thought mine wouldn't like algea wafers (as they're carnivorous), so I've been dropping in pure protein tablets that he loves to eat whole. Sometimes I wonder if he's eating enough when I don't have any pest snails...
 
Great pics though!