can a pleco eat a snail?

Hello,

I just found the empty and cracked shell for one of my mystery snails, just a little bit of meat still inside. I have catfish, pleco, leopard ctenopoma and two other mystery snails. The only fish I can think of that's strong enough to suck a snail out of shell is the pleco (he's about 9" long). Any ideas?

Thanks,

Vincent

Yes they can!, i had mystery snails in my tank and one night my eclipse catfish was sucking one of them out of the shell, also when the snail is about to die the plecos do their job and can start sucking it out of the shell too... good thing is that the snails reproduce so much!!

So plecos suck? I want some anyway. lmao

yes they do.. somehow they will find a way to get them out lol...

I suspected as much. One of the catfish is pretty large and the pleco is a beast.

Thanks for the feedback!

No problem, anytime!!

The catfish may also be eating them as well. Where theres a will theres a way!

Escargot!

I have a hard time explaining to my 8 year old why there is a snail foot floating around. The pleco is his favorite, but he doesn't condone carnivorous fish!

Well..... it is a fact of life.... Its a fish eat fish world out there!