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jasonpisani
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Any body knows if the Assassin Snail (Antentome helena) eats any plants?. I want to buy some of these to get rid of the "pest" snails in my planted tank, but I don't want them eating the plants.

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get loaches......
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I'm not much into Loaches & as bottom feeders I already have some Corydoras.

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idk about the snail ur talking about..... but if u dont like loaches idk wat to tell u.
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I've probably read the same info as you. All I could find was:
They eat any and all snails of equal or lesser size, except other assassins
When no other snails are available they scavange leftover fish food and algae wafers
They won't eat algae and suppossedly no live plants

There isn't much info out there on them. Hope this helps.

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