Picked off or dying?

[atticus]

So I have noticed over the past month that I have a increase in empty snail shells. Tank parameters are good so just not sure it they are dying or getting picked off by a fish here's list of fish:
Yellow tang
Hippo tang
Blue chromis
Seabae
Melanarus wrasse
Royal gramma
Clown
Fox face rabbbit
Seals Cardinal
Bangaggi cardinal

 

[reef lover]

Any hermits?? They're notorious for robbing shells.

 

[atticus]

Any hermits?? They're notorious for robbing shells.

Only like 2

 

[mtraylor]

hermits will take them out as above and some snails just don't last that long and die off.

 

[Tahoe61]

Polyclad Flatworms smoother and eat snails leaving only the shell. A few worms like Eunice will also dine on snails.

 

[reef lover]

Time to break out the red light and go on a stakeout. Lol

 

[atticus]

Time to break out the red light and go on a stakeout. Lol

?

 

[Tahoe61]

Forgot to ask, how old is the tank? Is there enough algae to sustain snails? What type of snail specifically?

 

[atticus]

Forgot to ask, how old is the tank? Is there enough algae to sustain snails? What type of snail specifically?

2 years. Astreas seems mostly.

 

[reef lover]

?

Most hitch hickers come out a night and aren't as sensitive to red light. Best way to see what's in there a couple hours after lights out.

 

[ngoodermuth]

The melanarus could be making a snack of them. I had one that liked to nip the trunks off my nassarius snails...

 

[4FordFamily]

The melanarus could be making a snack of them. I had one that liked to nip the trunks off my nassarius snails...

X2 this was my thought. They're worth the clean up crew replacement, I did it bi-annually so I could keep my wrasses!

 

[atticus]

X2 this was my thought. They're worth the clean up crew replacement, I did it bi-annually so I could keep my wrasses!

Yeah I had this thought it may be him!