Did My Black Snail Kill The Others?

I had 2 racer mystery snails and 2 black mystery snails in my tank. 1 of the blacks got too interested in my racers and was constantly sticking himself up in their shells, so I took him out and switch him with one of my japanese trap doors from one of my betta tanks. All was well until a few weeks ago, when the left over black started getting all up inside the racers. About a week after he started doing that, one of the racers died. A bout a week ago, my other racer died. Then the black was all up in my JTD's shell. I took the black snail out of the tank and put him separately. Did he kill my racers? or was it just a freak accident? Nothing else in my tank has died. All levels are normal. My other snails are fine. Any ideas?

(Tried to see if Petsmart would take him, but they wouldn't.)

 

Bumping this up for you

 

Were the racers producing a lot of eggs? I have a couple girls that I truly do believe I lost to over procreation, but what you're describing is the blacks being male and attempting to mate, nothing violent. I personally have taken to attempting to keep males and females separate for that reason, even though the eggs are easy enough to pull down.

 

Were the racers producing a lot of eggs? I have a couple girls that I truly do believe I lost to over procreation, but what you're describing is the blacks being male and attempting to mate, nothing violent. I personally have taken to attempting to keep males and females separate for that reason, even though the eggs are easy enough to pull down.

I thought it was mating at first, but there were no eggs. And then my racers both died. They were both fine and very healthy until I put the black snails in there. Could he have accidentally killed them?

 

I wouldn't think something like that would actually kill them unless they were really just never being left alone. It's standard mating behavior, but I have seen the younger males, when they hit "puberty" sort of run wild with things and just constantly be going at it, which I would assume would wear the girls out.

 

I wouldn't think something like that would actually kill them unless they were really just never being left alone. It's standard mating behavior, but I have seen the younger males, when they hit "puberty" sort of run wild with things and just constantly be going at it, which I would assume would wear the girls out.

That may be it. They were young when I got them. I guess they were over zealous about it and accidentally killed my girls.