L-333 pleco eating large mystery snails

[Brandon p]

I have a tank that has 7 L-333’s in it. It also has Sterbai a cories and had about 6 mystery’s full grown. I think that the L333’s ate them. Anyone have any other ideas. The L333’s or 2 inch’s and smaller

[Guppysnail]

With your 13 day absence it is quite possible. A hungry pleco even babies will eat snails. They would start by sucking the slime coat off the snail if they are small and just keep going until…..even well fed I have seen my baby bristlenose pleco sucking on the slime of my giant mystery Snails until the get annoyed and close up  

It could also have been a water quality issue during that time that the snail deteriorated then the pleco ate them. 

[Brandon p]

On 10/30/2021 at 1:31 PM, Guppysnail said:

With your 13 day absence it is quite possible. A hungry pleco even babies will eat snails. They would start by sucking the slime coat off the snail if they are small and just keep going until…..even well fed I have seen my baby bristlenose pleco sucking on the slime of my giant mystery Snails until the get annoyed and close up  

It could also have been a water quality issue during that time that the snail deteriorated then the pleco ate them. 

The l-333 are Carnivorous anyway so I was think that. I have a brittles nose grow out the and non of the blue mystery snail. None of the snails are gone. 

Edited November 1, 2021 by Brandon p