Assassin Snail Care Guide - THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS KILLER!

[@WildFishTanks]

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[@SimonJones265]

I placed 2 Assassin snails in a 10gallon that had 300+ pest snails. I now have 300+ assassin snails lol

[@RobAndrews18]

Haha so relatable. I now need to outsource trumpet snails to feed them. Luckily I have unlimited supply from a nearby river.

[@KewlQT]

They are NOT prolific breeders. You were lucky enough to get a male and a female Assassin. Plus it takes 6 months before their small clutch of eggs emerge from the substrate as tiny snails. My guess is this would have taken a very long time of incestuous behaviour to produce that many. Nice little money maker you ended up with.

[@suzannenichols6900]

Ohh great.

[@Matthew-hm4bh]

Suffering from success

[@sophiaadams73]

Simon I’ll take 1 off your hands!!

[@brandonwarner8450]

Actually, just to clear something up, and to put it in more scientific terms, the tube sticking out of the top of their heads is called a siphon, and they do not eat with it. Rather, they "breath" through it (bring water across the gills) and sniff for prey with it, scanning back and fourth in search of their next meal. It also acts as a snorkel when they burry themselves in substrate. However, they do have another, different tubular apparatus they do eat with. This is called a retractile proboscis, which is a hollow muscular tube that can be moved around like a tiny elephant trunk. The proboscis shoots out of it's mouth, engorged with blood when it's hungry... sort of like a mouth boner I guess. Anyhow at the tip, the proboscis is equipped with yet another retractable apparatus! This time, it's much smaller and more like a tongue. A scraping tongue, with tiny teeth (denticles) on it. This is called the radula. So, the Assassin Snail literally licks it's prey to death with a rasping toothed tongue shooting out of the tip a big fat mouth boner, rending and slurping up flesh and guts from it's victim, lick by lick. Bizarre, fascinating, and grotesque.

[@ADEdsall]

Have you seen an assassin snail where the probiscus stays dangling out for hours? Mine is passing the smell test, but not moving (much), siphon is withdrawn, and the probiscus is sticking out and not moving.

[@KewlQT]

Spot on!!

[@suzannenichols6900]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

[@heathert5455]

Sounds horrifying

[@mjw1404mw]

Mouth boner..... yikes! 😄

[@Mill_O]

The 3 assassins I picked up absolutely cleared up my pest snail situation. One sadly died, one is rampaging right now and the other is literally burying like shown here. Thank you for this content, glad to see some familiar animal behaviour!

[@noellerae45]

What size of tank?

[@TMAquatics]

So that’s why my socks disappear.......it’s those darn snails 😉👍

[@WildFishTanks]

Can’t have socks withem, can’t kill pest snails without them

[@imaflowerhorn6458]

@@WildFishTanks this made me immediately liked your video 😄

[@Rinqo25]

My assassin snail survived freeze level temperature water from the Texas snowstorm we had a couple weeks ago. He's a survivor

[@don-po1062]

my betta did aswell but then got dropsy a month later after the storm :( my family of kuhli loaches made it though! all 14 of them, they even bred after

[@emeraldent]

Like your style man, lotta channels on youtube, you keep pretty straight shooting and your passion shines through! Keep up the good work!

[@RobAndrews18]

Sounds quite candid but still informative. It's obvious that you've kept and bred them for a long time. They're among my fav creatures ever

[@Anakinuk007]

Agreed I have exact same problem. I had a combination of maybe 300-500 ramshorn and pest snails, they were everywhere! Bought four assassin snails. Fast forward 5 months the original snails is virtually zero, every now and then I see a couple of them. But instead I have 100s of assassin snails. Yes they breed slower than the other snails but in the end I still have a large snail problem :(

[@allthingsfelicia7133]

I really wish I would’ve found this (or done more research ) before I completely got rid of my whole planted aquarium that had over 1,000 pest snails because it was all good until I decided to save the pest snail because I felt bad about letting it face doom 🙄 but this helps and I will buy an assassin from now on if I have another issue

[@Steve-wm1ol]

Buy lots. You can't just buy one. It serves little purpose. Get six or a dozen.

[@VinylUnboxings]

The snails bothered you so much you trashed it? Tragic

[@flawlesscreation5642]

Loaches work good to

[@acidwaste00]

The snails are part of the ecosystem and you where over feeding to much food or else they'd have never grown so large a population.

[@OutlawCaliber13]

Assassin snails can, and will take down larger snails. Nerites, mysteries, etc. I had three mystery snails, and about 30+ ramshorns. 10 assassins(we though we only had four--I have sand substrate, and they like to burrow) wiped out all the ramshorns, and then ganged up on the three mystery snails. I've never seen assassins going for fish. If your fish dies, and settles, they'll eat it. I lost 15-20 ghost shrimp to assassin snails. You wanna make sure you have feeder snails, or protein feed to keep shrimp with them. They're predator snails, carnivorous. They actively hunt for protein. There's no real way to tell which are male, or female. You'll see one or two on the side of one. They're having sex, or trying to have sex. I've noticed my males are usually smaller, and the female is usually larger. That's not how they are, it's just I always see smaller males going after larger females to procreate. They'll breed between 75-82 degrees, and well fed. If there's not enough protein for more, they'll stop breeding.

[@OneMindEveryWeapon]

100%. Thought I removed all my assassins from a 10g nano tank. Put in a Nerite. Inside of 5 min I saw two yellow shells pop out. They went right for the nerite. I ended up pulling the assassins out and moving them to my 40g. Also have seen them take down ghost shrimps as well.

[@adamtucker117]

They're technically both have genders they all have male and female reproductive organs

[@dcphifer4307]

@@OneMindEveryWeapon Thanks for this share. I'll remove my Nerite Snails first and then get a male Assassin Snail and put him into this 10G to clean out the Bladder Snails. Or, just use the Chemical Treatment on the Plants that I buy before placing them into a Plant Quarantine Tank. I am planning on setting up a Plant Quarantine Tank and will get at least one Assassin Snail for that tank. To me, this is being pro-active. Thanks again.

[@matthewray5954]

You did a great job with the presentation of this video. I just subscribed. Thanks

[@angiebear8727]

Have a bladder snail explosion in one of my tanks. I’m assuming they hitched a ride on a plant. I don’t mind most snails but wow.

[@davidlee50]

I also saw a broccoli collection method for catching a lot of snails. Too cool, thanks. I'm leaning towards the mating pair that could be collected and lay their eggs in a new tank

[@andrewgoldfish]

Thanks for all the first hand info. I'd never trust them with my nerites. The Goldfish eventually take care of all my unwanted snail issues, but it looks like a good option for all the tropical folks.

[@WildFishTanks]

Thanks for watching!

[@sherrysfishroom6597]

Love it. It was a great care guide. Needed this at my finger tips. Great job on information.

[@WildFishTanks]

Thanks Sherry!

[@deanhampton1527]

Very informative! I think I will pick up one or two for my 10 gallon.

[@GreenthumbsGarden]

great personality mate! loved the sock joke..lol. Im setting up a Nano tank for my desk, the idea is a no flow selfsustained ecosystem. Do these snails tolerate colder water, room temps. A few of those rubbish little snails piggybacked in on a plant. So was thinking to get one to keep that future pollution down.

[@debbyw1640]

I've never kept assassins but am looking to put some in my tank to help with clearing my pest snail problem, are they OK with Cory's? Thanks for any advice guys

[@aidin717.]

Could I add less than the amount for my tank size and keep both my bladder snails and assassin snails? I'm not planning on feeding the assassin snails so if they eat all their food than they gonna die off too

[@Beansie]

06:11 what kind of substrate is that? It looks like dirt or coco coir. If it is...how do you keep it out of the water column?

[@claudiah.2935]

Thanks for the info! I had 3 assassin snails delivered today and hopefully they’ll eat the pond snails that hitchhiked into my 10G lol

[@bvanwart]

Isnt that their job?

[@madcat61207]

How's it going?

[@madcat61207]

They seem to help reduce the numbers, but you need a lot of Assassins to do any good as the Ram's Horn breed faster than they can suck 'em outta the shell. And I don't know if they want to finish off all their source of food.

[@emihayashi7725]

​@@madcat61207My assassin snails have cleared an overpoulated 10 gal of bladder, ramshorns, and MTS in 6-7 months. Now overpopulated with assassin snails *sigh*, back to square one.

[@mikem9796]

Great review. I started with 3 adults and now I have at least 12 -15 babies and adolescents.

[@crightstudios]

Mine bred like crazy, started off with 3 now I have 40+, ima have to depopulate my tank tho since my tank got tb.

[@ADEdsall]

I started off with one, increased it to four. One died and set off an ammonia bomb, lost two fish in the same day - my plecco and my puffer. I have two assassins left. One is moving around, the other has had its radula, the tongue-like extension, not the front siphon, sticking out for hours. Not smelling of ammonia, but trying to figure out if it’s alive or dead.

[@rogerhuggettjr.7675]

When I had a bladder snail problem in my 29-gallon tank my first solution was yoyo loaches. In 4 days that wiped out every visible snail and I thought I was good. The main fish in the tank were female bettas, neons albino corydoras and dwarf frogs. Because I heard that yoys can be aggressive as they get bigger, I moved them to a 55-gallon with large fish (rainbow praecox koi bettas and some huge corys). When the snails came back I purchased a few assassin snails. They have kept the invasion in check, but don't seem to be winning the war yet. I don't need them all dead, but just don't want them to become a distraction to what I'm building as a community and aquascape.

[@TheLingrush]

I run 2 in a 55g. It keeps the pest bladder snails down. I actually had to over feed a few days just to see the bladder snails show up again.

[@madcat61207]

Just two make a difference?

[@emihayashi7725]

​@@madcat61207Definately

[@antinwo8052]

You read my mind and answered my question. Rams horn snail population control and you said tank size and how many per gallon snail . Thank you very good video.

[@LeeDfined]

1:43...that shrimp was like "I dont think so."

[@spinycactus]

Hello, does a way exist to get rid of all assassin snails in a tank? I read a lettuce leaf but they don’t eat lettuce do they?I have caught 6 and given them to someone. I would like to get some red racer nerite snails to help with algae. I believe I put about six or seven in the tank. They have been in the tank for about a year.

[@lauraspaeth6130]

Excellent video, not a moment of my time wasted. THANK YOU!

[@Ethereal_BmZ]

Sub all the way from South Africa 😁🇿🇦 love your channel and love that its growing more keep it up🤙🏻

[@Fishvanger]

Awe lekker

[@seqkatwinn2766]

Would the assassin snail jump Pygmy Corydoras that sleep on the bottom, or even Otocinclus that sleep on the bottom of the tank too?

[@bhen2753]

Good vid!I have pond snails in my tanka. not overwhelming but they are ugly!! Going to get some of these!

[@PsychedelicPhD]

I have a question. Hope I could get some help. My assassin snail pushed out a milk white substance. I was pulling him off of my nerite snail. Do you know what it is? I’ve kept assassins with nerite before and had a great success by keeping them fed wel enough so they don’t pay any attention to them. But I got a new assassin snail and he didn’t get the memo

[@lilybeaumont683]

I got one ...put it in my 10g then move it to my 3.5..now I've taken 3 young out the 10g...the larger one has a graveyard of dead snails in her favorite part of the tank...I have a ton of pest snails in every tank so I just throw in the biggest...I keep them out my other tanks just in case they go after my good snails..I have had most of them 3 years now..

[@LeeDfined]

They are cool

[@TheStormRogue]

Would 1 for a 10 gallon be acceptable? I ideally wanna get a mystery snail, and I worry they'll kill it or something, so I don't want them to breed.

[@saundrabush236]

Very informative and straight to the point. Thanks!👍🏼👍🏼

[@craigevans5155]

Hi. Do Assassin snails eat pleco eggs ? I have a lot of assassin snails in each tank, most of my pleaco pairs have stopped breeding (laying eggs) i think its the snails ??

[@johnzacher1545]

Ive had 4 adults assassin snails for almost a year now about a month ago I started noticing little babies everywhere what's up any problems the babies are growing but today I found one of the adults and his show was empty he was gone what do you think happened to him. I just give the fish flakes and pellets and the snails don't really have meat or other snails to eat do you think one of the snails kill the other adult???

[@guppybeast6]

Nice 👍 thinking about breeding them in my outdoor 150 stock ponds . Have you tried them in our weather

[@maestrooscuro5299]

Will they try to eat larger snails like mystery for example

[@ade-1772]

Cool video and I have just found three different size snails in my tank so I don't know how many I have my tank is 105 gallons so will see so exciting

[@sherabdrolma4682]

I purchased some frozen meaty cubes that my pea puffers won't eat. Will the assassins eat it? My assassins also have plenty of snails available too.

[@matthewdefeo9565]

I usually add a little aquarium salt to my 60 gallon during water change ,, are they sensitive to a small amount ?

[@babs3483]

Good question

[@CallMeMaku]

Heya. I got some new assassin snails, but i have a very big rocky substrate and i am really scared, they will try to bury themselves and wont be able to get out. What should i do?

[@davidarmillie4226]

Where did they go? The Assassin snails ate all the bad super small snails and then disappeared! Where did they go? Will they come back? My Nerite snails are fine!

[@odenki88]

Should i take out my assassin snails since i want more cherry shrimps and i found no pest snails in my aquascape

[@Ghost_of_Robespierre]

Will they eat larger snails like a mystery snail or rabbit snail if I only get a single one?

[@Victor-su2lf]

Yes, mine tried to eat a shrimp one time 😂 So if you have snails that you like, you better not get an assassin snail…

[@shanejones578]

Hit the like button as soon as I heard are they the reason the sock is missing in the wash, love it bro 😂

[@nigelperren2645]

Great video man

[@andrewspeedyatkinson]

Thanks do you no if they will eat cory and bn pleco eggs

[@johnjwedrall4290]

Will assassin snails eat alge off aquarium glass ?

[@josephtaala1531]

My Assassin Snail Love the other snails by not eating them sometimes the baby ram snails hump on his back and give them a free ride. what's wrong with my Assassin Snail. he's the only one I got from the Pet store :(

[@madcat61207]

Maybe you need more if they are too outnumbered.

[@masoniulianelli6449]

I was gonna grab some of these guys. Decided to get some clown loaches instead for my snail probably and now I’ve got a nice clown colony. I do want assassins again after seeing this tho.

[@madcat61207]

I was thinking of doing that until I read how big they grow.

[@kristinhawkins6491]

I went on a wild goose chase this morning looking for assassin snails and/clown loach today to no avail 😕 we all of a sudden have pest snails in our turtle tanks! My question is, will these guys live okay with diamond back terrapins? Our big one is 5 inches and our little guy is maybe 2 inches.... do think they will get eaten?

[@kpllc4209]

Probably will get eaten sooner or later

[@hlubideetz7614]

I bought 2 Assassin snails and I have a 15 gallon tank. So yeah. Just got them about 2 days ago. I have gravel and NOT sand.

[@kaylatobin7627]

I just put two in my tank for my pond snail infestation. Should I be worried about them breeding too much? I have a ten gallon filled with snails that have been devouring my plants :(

[@ashleytrottier3063]

Update ?

[@babs3483]

Update? Did it work?

[@_shubhampardeshi_]

I put assassian snails in my tank 4 years ago then they died and today i saw 2 assassian what reason it might be ? I have put all emerged plants only and only one plant was bought from store plz help

[@skinsandcelticsfan3408]

I’ve had nerite survive with them I’ve had one die another time, but I need to get a separate snail trap to get some mts from one tank to theirs so they can eat they don’t seem to be doing so well

[@WildFishTanks]

Yea try to get them some mts or a nice sinking pellet. I’ve also heard they’ll eat blood worms but I haven’t tried

[@skinsandcelticsfan3408]

Lucky Schmuck's Fish Cave I feed flake pellets and frozen stuff but they decimated the snail population I had in there, so I’ve avoided putting them in my 55 so I could get some mts to them just haven’t found a way of getting a bunch out at once

[@WildFishTanks]

Try catching them at night, you can “bait” then with some green beans/cucumber too. Wait until it’s crowd and pull the whole thing out.

[@skinsandcelticsfan3408]

Lucky Schmuck's Fish Cave ok I’ll try, in what through? I’ve tried like a bottle with a hole, but different bait I just used some pellet food

[@calmorezoo]

Thank you for this very information video

[@robsloaches7752]

The snails you kindly gifted me did an awesome job of clearing a 55 gallon of hundreds of pest snails! Highly recommend them and I found that missing sock in their tank!

[@madcat61207]

How many Snail Assassins did you use to clear a 55gal?

[@Matsyashrushti]

Awesomee budddy...loveee from indiaaa...let make this world fish lover together

[@nico-3663]

My 50 gallon is just coated in snails, just got 3 assassins. Maybe I’ll get more, but for now seems these lil guys will be eating good

[@noumenanoz8819]

I keep assasain snails with both a mystery snail large and a nirite snail normal size and they dont bother them at all. They kill my pest snails though.

[@pieterpuk7684]

I've held assassins for ages and can confirm a few things: They DO NOT attack fish. They do clean up dead fish real quick like. Which is good because that prevents ammonia spikes if a fish dies in a corner somewhere and goes unnoticed. They DO NOT attack shrimp. I've held cherry shrimp with them for ages and I've seen shrimp sit on top of both the submerged and mobile snails and the snails did not do anything. They DO NOT attack each other. I've spent a week observing after the other snails where verified gone and they all just went around and snacked on whatever else they could find. I've seen many ambush ready submerged snails be walked over by other assassins and there was no attack. What do they eat if there is no prey? Mostly bottom feeder wafers and fish flake. They really make a beeline for that. I don't think they eat algae, but they might eat some dead plant matter as I've seen them munch on dead leaves a bunch of times and they do gather up there if there's no other food available. They also came out for stuff like blanched zucchini or cucumber. For me, the favorite place to lay eggs seems to have been the glass, which was a bit of a pain since I couldn't easily clean those spots if I wanted to keep the eggs. They are definitely awesome and pretty, but as mentioned do not consider them a cleaner like a nerite. They are fully part of the bioload.

[@cegspace5033]

I would get assassin snails but they are illegal in Australia due to not being native.

[@bettaandfriendsph2732]

My two Assassin snails just clear my tank less than a week now I almost out of Ramshorn snails so I breed them in my other tanks, I noticed that they don't like eating pond snails.

[@TheKaosGravy]

Another great video 🐙

[@johnwood738]

Just dropped my first group in my pleco breeding tank lots of food in there to keep the fish conditioned to breed,so have a bunch of mts in the tank. Hope to hit a balance!

[@Maliaxgc]

I have a 29 gallon with 1 big mama Zebra Nerite snail who had baby snails. I also have tow assassin snails in my tank. They do eat my babies! So if you are wondering yes they should eat nerites, but only your babies!

[@_F0XTR0T]

Now I know where my socks have been disappearing to, thanks mate

[@antoniokfranco]

I had 2. One was dead after the 1st month, the survivor annihilated every snail in my 50 gallon tank over the following month. It’s been about a year and he or she is still alive, not sure what she’s eating.

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

They can double as detritivores if no snails are available. That's what happened with me too (my tank is practically the same size of yours).

[@johnjwedrall4290]

Very informative 👍

[@djssquibbs3295]

I needed this today thank you! saludos desde Costa Rica

[@iamshakma4231]

Great video mate!

[@DuyDepTraiPhoBaTrieu]

Do they go above the waterline like Apple Snails? I am worried they might leave my tank. Help.

[@homelessman7247]

Mime hasnt. At least not yet. Ive had him for a while :)

[@tinekewolfswinkel1164]

I had 3, now over a 100. Mine did not go above the waterline in the normal aquarium. But last week I took all of the assassin snails out of the aquarium and put them in a large vase - took me 2 days to accomplish this :D. Within an hour 68 of them were all hanging out along the water line. I gently pushed them back, but an hour later: there they were again. I have no idea why they are doing this. Only one actually left, and dropped over the edge. I put him back, and he seems alright. Does anybody have an idea why they are doing this? Lack of space, lack of shelter, lack of whatever? We like to give them a good life, but are not sure if they are happy now. Thanks for your comments.

[@davidarmillie4226]

I have all these tiny snails so I bought 2 Assassin snails but I never see them! I have 2 nerite snails but they are much larger. I see them all the time!

[@WildFishTanks]

It could take time for the assassin snails to do their job. They also will burrow into the substrate. Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t working. If you have a ton of pest snails it could take weeks or months for them to really chow down the entire population

[@Ali-ik1mh]

Will nerite snail species 'get together' and start laying eggs all over the ? I have 2 diffrent types of nerite snails

[@WildFishTanks]

Yes they will lay eggs even if it’s just one but they won’t hatch unless you move them to brackish water. The eggs are unsightly on the glass or other hard surfaces but you won’t be overrun with baby nerite snails

[@kylemendoza8860]

Kuhli loaches are good snail egg eaters. Could be a good balance

[@leo2o915]

I ordered 8 is that enough for a 40 breeder with MTS

[@emihayashi7725]

IMO, you have more than enough.

[@reynardvanderwalt2390]

I just got my assassin snails, but they are just chillin there, not even getting out of they're shells

[@kingcherryblossom2059]

Thank you so much! It really helped!

[@karamshahin2771]

Do they burry themselves in gravel? Cause I can’t find mine lol

[@richardburnssmith1884]

How often do assassin snails eat

[@ratsaremagic]

For sure you are the Snail BOSS - liked the video - watch it 3 times!

[@Dontcare-soshhh]

Good video and good info thank u

[@AquaApprentice]

When you say them making out “that’s a good sign” lol.

[@nickmoder3697]

Informative video, thanks gor making this

[@WildFishTanks]

Glad you found it useful Nick, thanks for watching

[@Ali-Muscle]

Can 3 of them get rid of an over populated tank of trumpet snails ???

[@emihayashi7725]

Not within a day, but will clear tank of pest snails within a year

[@joris0283]

When I feed my shrimp, all the assasin snails come out and they go after my shrimp.... if they are lucky they will get your shrimp, I have seen it happen many times, I'm going to move all my assasin snail to another aquarium with only fish in it!!!! And when your shrimp is molting they are an easy prey.... That's my experience with these snails, but I still love them :-)

[@Shibanugger]

assassin snails are from the genus clea and clea is from the family nassariidae so they’re pretty much freshwater nassarius snails that have an urge to kill other snails

[@saler1423]

feed with live brine shrimp?

[@catfishcave379]

You have a lot of snails.... gimme my socks back!? I have seen an assassin snail with a cowboy hat and a lasso riding a snakeskin barb... Great information as usual.

[@bobhill2821]

i have rabbit snails, but picked up 1 assass6 snail today to try and kill off an infestation of bladder snails if been told they might kill my rabbit snails

[@RG-iu9yd]

I got 2 assassin snails…. One I can’t find where is it…. The other one didn’t move at all from last 2 weeks…. Shell looks empty…. No idea what’s wrong….

[@matthewberry9648]

Ayo somebody sold you an empty shell rip. Some pet stores keep the empty shells as decor and your guy was probably too lazy to check 💀💀💀

[@kbs36]

Great video.

[@fishtalk3379]

Great video, Thanks!

[@doominic1882]

Got Nerite snails with Assasins and they are fine

[@jaysonworrall9479]

Thank you some great thanks again buddy.