Can one feed too many snails to a pea puffer?

Entered the pea puffer world when I purchased an already established 5 g tank.
Inhabitants are one pea puffer named Shamrock as I picked up the tank on St.Patrick’s day. Tank also has some cherry shrimp (the seller had not mentioned the shrimp so I had to do a crash course on shrimp keeping!) and an assassin snail which I discovered when it popped up out of the substrate!

Anyway, I’m completely smitten with the puffer! He readily eats thawed blood worms and daphnia. And I give him a ramshorn snail about 2x/week.
Last time I added about 4 small snails. He definitely ate one right away and I did see 2 others a day or so later and then they disappeared. Obviously, the assassin may have enjoyed a meal also.
Will a puffer gorge on snails?
Is it safe to add 4-6 small snails at a time?

 

Entered the pea puffer world when I purchased an already established 5 g tank.
Inhabitants are one pea puffer named Shamrock as I picked up the tank on St.Patrick’s day. Tank also has some cherry shrimp (the seller had not mentioned the shrimp so I had to do a crash course on shrimp keeping!) and an assassin snail which I discovered when it popped up out of the substrate!

Anyway, I’m completely smitten with the puffer! He readily eats thawed blood worms and daphnia. And I give him a ramshorn snail about 2x/week.
Last time I added about 4 small snails. He definitely ate one right away and I did see 2 others a day or so later and then they disappeared. Obviously, the assassin may have enjoyed a meal also.
Will a puffer gorge on snails?
Is it safe to add 4-6 small snails at a time?
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I guess it’s possible he could overeat but some are smart enough to stop when they are full. I would probably keep it to 1-2 a day to prevent overeating but I have never kept peas so I dont know for sure.

 

Generally they will eat till they are full then kill everything else for sport.

 

Generally they will eat till they are full then kill everything else for sport.

Wow they are agressive little buggers lol

 

Wow they are agressive little buggers lol

They supposedly are. I’ve read they don’t mix well with most other fish. I’m surprised he leaves the shrimp alone. I’ve watched a shrimp swim right up to him and he totally ignores it.
It’s fascinating to watch him stalk a snail.

 

They supposedly are. I’ve read they don’t mix well with most other fish. I’m surprised he leaves the shrimp alone. I’ve watched a shrimp swim right up to him and he totally ignores it.
It’s fascinating to watch him stalk a snail.

Yeah they are the tigers of the fish tanks lol