Snails attacking snails??

[Agua86]

I've started noticing a whole lot of empty snail shells in one of my tanks, and today found some Rams and trumpets ganging up on a single ramshorn. I feed them very well, these were sent to me by another hobbyist here, and I promised to not feed them off to my puffer - **** I'm shocked I've managed to keep them alive this long, so I'd like to know why they're doing this?

 

[Salem]

It likely has algae or something on it's shell- mine do that a lot. A lot of snails will also eat other snails if theyre dead.

As for the empty shells- pest snails are known to just sort of suddenly die. They usually only live for about a year or so but a lot will die in like 8 months

 

[Agua86]

It likely has algae or something on it's shell- mine do that a lot. A lot of snails will also eat other snails if theyre dead.

As for the empty shells- pest snails are known to just sort of suddenly die. They usually only live for about a year or so but a lot will die in like 8 months

I started noticing them about 2 months ago, the shells are medium sized Rams, I know they get much bigger, the feeder snails I order come with some beefy guys. I was worried because I have yet to see Rams babies and the original stock is nearly gone.

 

[Salem]

I assure you you definitely already have babies. They take a few weeks to hatch and then another few weeks to grow big enough that theyre visible.

 

[jmarcf]

I don't think they are attacking each other in a "bad" way My mystery snails do the same