canadian_eh
Aquarium Advice Regular
A little while ago I noticed that all of my spaghetti worms disappeared. There used to be about 10 or so in there and now I can't find a single one. I thought it was my recently added pistol that did it but then last week I cleaned out my canister filter and found a spaghetti worm in there. Of course I dumped him in the tank and within about a minute a nassarius snail grabbed it, chomped it in half and ate it!
Is it normal for these snails to eat live stuff like that or are they just underfed? I have 8 of them in a 25G plus other cleanup crew. I had bought them to help stir the sand.
This may be subjective but there sure does seem that there are a lot less of all types of worms in the sand now as well. I'm really worried that they are eating all other stirring critters.
The reason I wonder about under feeding is that come feeding time everything in the tank goes crazy. The nassarius snails and hermits all come running to the corner where I feed. The cleaner shimp swims aroudn upside down trying to grab as much as possible and my pistol runs around the sand. Also there are always 1 or 2 hermits that climb up the silicone in the corners at the tank and try to eat stuff off the surface. Not sure if they are eating the DOC film or small particles of food but they are always there.
Wow that was suposed to be a quick Q 8O
Thanks for any help
-Ron
Is it normal for these snails to eat live stuff like that or are they just underfed? I have 8 of them in a 25G plus other cleanup crew. I had bought them to help stir the sand.
This may be subjective but there sure does seem that there are a lot less of all types of worms in the sand now as well. I'm really worried that they are eating all other stirring critters.
The reason I wonder about under feeding is that come feeding time everything in the tank goes crazy. The nassarius snails and hermits all come running to the corner where I feed. The cleaner shimp swims aroudn upside down trying to grab as much as possible and my pistol runs around the sand. Also there are always 1 or 2 hermits that climb up the silicone in the corners at the tank and try to eat stuff off the surface. Not sure if they are eating the DOC film or small particles of food but they are always there.
Wow that was suposed to be a quick Q 8O
Thanks for any help
-Ron