Opportunity Feaster

[bignellm]

Just had my first experience with a snail feasting on the corpse of a fish. At first thought the two snails were mating, but upon watching for a bit noticed a fish tail protruding from their combined feet. These two diffusa had stripped off all the flesh from this platy in course of few hours. Apparently a platy passed away overnight and these two came across her corpse. By the time I arrived on scene, fish was only bones and cartilage. Even a Ramshorn got in on the action and I think laid eggs in the fish's mouth... When I removed fish, it had what looked like bubbles clung to it's mouth and so did a plant near by... removed those bubbles/eggs with fish and disposed of.

Hope it was only opportunity and not some pent up revenge for these platy nipping at their antenna and feet.

[ekfishlover2011]

Definitely just oppurtunity, i cant see any way that a snail could kill a fish. Though, i had a fish so close to death once that it was paralyzed pretty much so a whole gang of feeder shrimps came up and dragged the still breathing fish around by its tail eating its fins, so at the worse it could be similiar to that, but either way it looked dead to them, so they scavenged.