Is it my imagination or are Saddleback puffers eating Vermetid snails?

[Dom]

At first, I thought it was my imagination.

Today completed a 90 QT for two Saddleback puffers. I acclimated and placed them in a 125 gallon.

After a few minutes of introducing themselves to the other tank inhabitants, they began exploring the rock work, and have been picking at a patch of Vermetid snails on the underside of a rock arch.

I know that other puffer fish like to eat inverts and clams, so I'm wondering if these two guys will be cleaning up my Vermetid snails?

 

[Cthulukelele]

I would expect a Saddleback puffer to pick at things like vermentid snails and tube worms

 

[Cthulukelele]

My valentini devoured vermentids and micro feather dusters. He nibbled pretty much everything else when he felt like it

 

[Dom]

So happy to hear this feedback. Of what I know about puffer fish, it makes sense to me that they would be predators to Vermetid snails.

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Interesting

 

[Dom]

So here is my next question:

It has been 10 weeks since adding the Saddleback. Most of the Vermetid snail tubes are gone now.

And from what I know about these snails, they feed through their tube. Do you think the puffer crunching down their tubes will cause the snails to starve?