Snails constantly disappear

[buddah001]

Do clownfish feed their host anems snails? I think mine are. All of my snails disappear and around the anems is a snail shell graveyard. I really dont feed the anems. Will the clownfish do this.

 

[Lanie]

Are your nems growing?

 

[1fishkeeper]

I know my haddoni use to grab them if they touched it. I was starting to think it was french with as many snails that it ate.

 

[aerie2008]

My Actinia equina eats Stomatella snails if they get within reach of her tentacles. I find the empty shells on the sand below the Actinia later.

I would not put snail-eating beyond the anemone, though I would have thought snails than can lock their shell with an operculum would be on the safe side (Stomatellas cannot draw back into their minute shell).

 

[Amphiprion]

They can be eaten, even with the operculum closed. There are other possible explanations for disappearing snails, though, which range from prior health issues to predation by something else.

 

[elegance coral]

I've kept my haddoni with Mexican Turbo snails for quite a few years with no problem. Then a month or so ago, out of the blue, he got a taste for escargot. In a little over a weeks time, he wiped out all of them. Probably about 15. I have no idea what caused the change. I just left the shells piled up underneath him. Here he is spitting out the shell.