My fish are eating my snails.

[Luckystrike_Blah]

So I am still new to keeping fish all my fish seem to be happy and healthy. I have four tanks two 55, one 75, and a 30 tall. I recently got some rams horn snails quite a few actually (they where free) mostly all small and they all disappeared from all but one tank. The tank with my synodontis catfish and large pleco are gone not even shells, the tank with my cory catfish and medium pleco is just a bunch of empty shells, But my tank with my rubber lip and farlowella catfish seem to be doing ok. In the tank that I still see live ones in, I see tons of snail eggs all the time in that tank but then they disappear and I never see any new snails or small ones only a few decently sized ones. I am pretty sure its the plecos eating them but is that normal and if it is the catfish getting into them is that something that I should be concerned about health wise for them? I really love my farlowella catfish, synodontis catfish and my upsidedown catfish and would hate to have anything happen to them because I put snails in there. I guess my main question would be is it normal for catfish and plecos to eat snails?

 

[FishAddict74]

So I am still new to keeping fish all my fish seem to be happy and healthy. I have four tanks two 55, one 75, and a 30 tall. I recently got some rams horn snails quite a few actually (they where free) mostly all small and they all disappeared from all but one tank. The tank with my synodontis catfish and large pleco are gone not even shells, the tank with my cory catfish and medium pleco is just a bunch of empty shells, But my tank with my rubber lip and farlowella catfish seem to be doing ok. In the tank that I still see live ones in, I see tons of snail eggs all the time in that tank but then they disappear and I never see any new snails or small ones only a few decently sized ones. I am pretty sure its the plecos eating them but is that normal and if it is the catfish getting into them is that something that I should be concerned about health wise for them? I really love my farlowella catfish, synodontis catfish and my upsidedown catfish and would hate to have anything happen to them because I put snails in there. I guess my main question would be is it normal for catfish and plecos to eat snails?

I wouldn’t worry at all, plecos and Synodontis will eat snails. It’s just some protein for them. I used to feed my eruptus and angelicus snails all the time.