Is my bumblebee a killer?

[nasukan]

I got home from work to day and found one of my bumblebee snails eating a hermit crab. the crabs shell is empty and his legs are sticking away from the snail. Any opinions about what probably happened would be greatly appreciated.

 

[matt dowdney]

Maybe the hermit was dead and the snail decided to take advantage of it. Bumblebee's are sand sifting snails and I think they may be obnivors. See if he goes after anything else in the tank. How big is the snail and how big "was" the hermit?

 

[nasukan]

Both could be described as tiny. The hermit was smaller than a pencil eraser and the bumblebee is just a little bigger. I've heard mixed reviews about them after I bought five. So I need to know if I should take them back.

 

[nasukan]

Since you are from Cincinatti what do you think of Tim Austin?(IBF bantamweight champion of the world) I love him, but he should be more active.

 

[fixitdude2001]

Learned from experience, they will eat yellow pollups. We bought one because they are so differant looking, very cool. Had no problems until we put in a really nice yellow pollup rock. In one night it ate all the pollups. Have not had any other problems that I know of . This is the only distructive thing I have seen them do...cya...fixit