So this is not a horrible problem to have, but I have a breeding population of stomatella snails in the tank that probably numbers in the hundreds, albeit maybe only a couple dozen larger ones - lots of midsize.
Since their population exploded I’ve been seeing die off of a lot of my other CUC - crabs, snails, conches. I suspect they’re outcompeting for food via sheer numbers and there’s not much left for the rest of the algae eaters in there. Microfauna - shrimp, amphipods and copepods seem fine, along with little feather dusters. The bristleworms also seem untroubled….
Is there anything to do about this? Or just deal with having a less interesting CUC consisting almost entirely of stomatella snails?
Since their population exploded I’ve been seeing die off of a lot of my other CUC - crabs, snails, conches. I suspect they’re outcompeting for food via sheer numbers and there’s not much left for the rest of the algae eaters in there. Microfauna - shrimp, amphipods and copepods seem fine, along with little feather dusters. The bristleworms also seem untroubled….
Is there anything to do about this? Or just deal with having a less interesting CUC consisting almost entirely of stomatella snails?