Are my snails eating or getting enough food?

[deputydawg88]

I have a couple of Babylonia snails and I intermittently feed them pellets but I am not sure how much I should be feeding them or how often and as a result I'm sure I end up overfeeding and causing a cyanobacteria bloom.

The problem is they rarely come out when the light is on and when I do feed them the cleaner shrimp I have does its level best to eat all the pellets, which leads to me overfeeding. I can presume they are eating something because they have yet to starve in three and a half months but what are the indicators that they're hungry or starving?

Is their snorkel being a bit bent and/or limp a sign?

How much should I be feeding them and how often?

 

[heathlindner25]

You should not have to feed your clean up crew

 

[deputydawg88]

There's nothing else in the tank I have to feed, I have a mandarin which goes after pods and a lawnmower blenny that eats my algae. I was under the impression that if I didn't supplement some food for the snails, they would go without?

 

[mcgyvr]

With little in the tank and no daily fish food then sure.. Its not a bad idea to drop some pellets/flake food or whatever in the tank every week or so.. Just a small pinch should be plenty..
But in general snails like that usually find enough to eat..

 

[heathlindner25]

If you have to feed your clean up crew, you probably shouldn't have one yet. I have always built my clean up crew around what is needed.