Do Rams normally eat snails?

[Huckleberry77]

My male GBR is attacking my new pink ramshorn snails and appears to be eating bits off them!! Is this typical? I didn’t expect this at all. I guess I won’t have to worry about an overpopulation of ramshorns in my tank! I’m not sure how long they will survive at all.

 

[MacZ]

They're not specialized snail eaters, but pretty much every dwarf cichlid I have ever kept will at least try to eat snails and for sure they all eat small ones.

 

[Huckleberry77]

They're not specialized snail eaters, but pretty much every dwarf cichlid I have ever kept will at least try to eat snails and for sure they all eat small ones.

Interesting and good to know!