cories eating baby snails - safe?

[clownbaby]

I imagine this is safe and a good snack as a live food, but I just wanted to be sure.

Having some bladder snails hitchhike on my plants, I now have hundreds of itty bitty baby snails all over my tank (despite manually removing eggs like everyday and slowing down feedings 😭), but that is honestly okay! They're really cute.

My pygmy corydoras keep eating the smallest ones off the glass though. I don't have a problem with this (good population control!) but I did want to know if this is safe / if it would cause any problems. Does anyone have any input? I would guess it is totally fine but I just wanna check 🙂

Thanks everyone!!!!

[T. Payne]

While I have never witnessed corydoras eating an entire snail including the shell, I commonly crush snails on the aquarium glass and my breeding groups of corydoras rush to them and eat them. I wouldn't imagine it being a problem for them consuming the shell as well.

[AllFishNoBrakes]

If they’ve been doing this, and you haven’t seen anything bad happen, I would assume it’s not an issue 

[Max W.]

My Cory’s grab the snail. Then after a while, they spit the shells out and Im left to clean up the snail shells.