Will assasin snails eat baby nerite snails?

I have a big nerite snail problem in my planted tank, because they keep chewing up all my plants. I've been manually taking them out and leaving traps, and it only sort of working. The only snails left are little baby snails, do you think assasin snails would eat them? I would much rather replace nerite snails with assasin snails, since I like having snails in my tank, as long as they don't eat my plants

 

Nerite snails don't reproduce in freshwater and their babies are little floating larvae

If they are eating plants I think you have some sort of apple snail? I would assume assasins would eat them

 

Nerite snails don't reproduce in freshwater and their babies are little floating larvae

If they are eating plants I think you have some sort of apple snail? I would assume assasins would eat them

Oh interesting.. when I first bought the snail that started this whole mess, I was told it was a nerite snail, but maybe it wasn't one at all. I ordered some assasins from ebay, here's hoping!

 

good luck! my assassin snails will only eat cory eggs

I've had 3 of 5 die. One is 2x his size because my girl is prolific with her breeding and he feasted this week.

I had 30+ mystery snails large to small & the 5 of them never attacked any of them. I put them in a container with pest snails and they moved right past them.

maybe my assassin snails are slow? or snobby, caviar or nothing. lol.

let us know how it goes! good luck

 

good luck! my assassin snails will only eat cory eggs

I've had 3 of 5 die. One is 2x his size because my girl is prolific with her breeding and he feasted this week.

I had 30+ mystery snails large to small & the 5 of them never attacked any of them. I put them in a container with pest snails and they moved right past them.

maybe my assassin snails are slow? or snobby, caviar or nothing. lol.

let us know how it goes! good luck

Thanks! It's been a couple weeks, so far no luck

 

Any pics of these snails? I have nerites in my big tank which is planted and all of them are perfect little charmers, never touch the plants, just graze at any algae they can find and eat the algae wafers I throw in because they did too good of a job at getting rid of my algae. I can't believe how clean my various rocks are since I added them to the tank.

Also, one downside to them is they leave little white spots (eggs) everywhere, but being a fresh water tank, none of these eggs hatch or if they do, no young survive. If your eggs are in a jelly like substance, you don't have a nerite.

 

Any pics of these snails? I have nerites in my big tank which is planted and all of them are perfect little charmers, never touch the plants, just graze at any algae they can find and eat the algae wafers I throw in because they did too good of a job at getting rid of my algae. I can't believe how clean my various rocks are since I added them to the tank.

Also, one downside to them is they leave little white spots (eggs) everywhere, but being a fresh water tank, none of these eggs hatch or if they do, no young survive. If your eggs are in a jelly like substance, you don't have a nerite.

They are a jelly-like substance! I tried to get a picture, sorry for bad quality.

 

Nerite snails need salt or brackish water to reproduce you have something else haha

 

Well it is hard to tell from the pic but those look like bladder snails. an assassin "should" eat those.
I say "should" as mine never have and eventually starved/died. Though I think I have a live one in an empty breeder.

 

Look like bladder snails to me too. I have a major infestation in my shrimp tank. I allow algae to grow and cultivate bio film to feed the shrimp, but it also feeds the bladder snails so their numbers are out of control. They don't bother the plants too much, but I think that's because they're happy with the algae.

And I also added assassin snails to try and get the population under control. No luck, the assassin snails glide right over the bladder snails without taking a single bite. So I'm back to manually removing the bladder snails and crushing them and their egg sacks on the side of the glass with little but at least some results.

As many have stated, keeping their numbers under control can be done by not over feeding. And this has worked in my 55 gallon, which is also a planted tank. I finally came up with the right combination of fish plus the nerites, that there is very little left for the bladder snails. I now see a few here and there, which is fine, they are good at getting uneaten food out of spaces too small for the other occupants to reach. But if I see more than 10, I put the snail traps in for a few days.