You just know he is gonna come back at ya for that

i stand corrected. the reason i called them rams-horns is that is what i had seen them called on another web site, but it did occur to me at the time that real rams horns have the curl.

according to this Oz

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the snails in question are commonly known as Malaysian trumpet snails. though they don't look much like trumpets either.

i still have 2 or 3 surviving 'small rams-horn snails' (going by said web site pics) that appear to have been overlooked by the CLs.

i am still amazed at how many snails my CLs have munched. i have taken out the odd net full off snails in the past, that was bigger than the pile u have in you pic and this barely dented the population. my CLs got through at least 20 or 30 times the amount of snails in your pic (maybe more) in 5 days.

Maybe they look like 'Malaysian trumpets' ?

Well, we've been tipping them in by the bowl load, and I've not seen any either. They do a good job. I should just save the effort, and throw the Clowns in the other tank !

But I guess they won't leave any for breeding, and so would end the source of some nice little tit-bits.