Melanoides tuberculata, eggs eaters?

[blucenere]

Hello everybody,
i read recently about the malaysian trumpet snails Melanoides tuberculata (i cannot remember the website), that they can eat Apistos eggs during their night raids
Has any of you experience about that?

I am interested in keeping them because of their healty tendency to move the soil.

 

[Mike Wise]

I have them in some of my tanks that have apistos that have bred and raised fry. What you write may be true, I don't know. Maybe the snails in my tank are too stupid or slow to find a spawn!

 

[blucenere]

Thank you, i read a lot of discording info, mostly from those "data sheets", and very few from personal experiences.
Sometimes i wonder if the person who writes those "data sheets", had first hand experience or copied another data sheet that has been copied from another one and so on...
The only scientific paper i found was about them eating other snails eggs as a mean of biological competition
http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2012/AI_2012_2_Ladd_Rogowski.pdf

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I haven't had any problem with Malaysian Trumpet Snails (Melanoides tuberculata) eating Apistogramma eggs. I have seen the female removing them from the immediate vicinity of the cave.

cheers Darrel

 

[gerald]

Egg-predation by snails may depend on what other foods are available. If there's a lot of snails in your breeding tanks, you might consider dropping in a few extra Pleco-wafers or other sinking food during the period while dwarf cichlids are guarding eggs. Most snails are opportunistic and could eat fish eggs if other preferred foods are in short-supply.