Looking for algae eater that will eat snails

[Lupin]

there are two snails in the apple snail family that i know of that eat plants. cana snails and marisa snails. both are quite a bit larger than your average pest snail. the cana gets bigger than a golf ball, and the marisa snail looks like a giant ramshorn.

here's a great link for apple snail info, if it interests you: http://www.applesnail.net/

Plenty of snail species of canaliculata complex will actually eat plants aside from Marisa cornuarietis and hybrid Asolene spixi, not just the Pomacea canaliculata itself.

In my experience, MTS do not eat healthy plants but like most snails, they prefer dead to decaying vegetation. They are nocturnal preferring to appear in the dark mostly.

 

[BigFishMommy]

i'm sure there are other snails that eat plants, but those are the two i personally know that will. my research so far hasn't extended across too many species yet.

 

[wild bill]

If I am remembering right I think it was a pixie snail or something that ate plants but not sure. I thiink my wife did put some asassin snails in the tank but not sure on that.

 

[knifegill]

The assassins work pretty hard! I just added some assassins to my MTS mountain a couple of days ago and the empty shells are already littering the sand. It's like a miracle.