Keep us posted. I have been looking at these guys as a possible to keep in planted tanks where snails are NOT wanted. As in, breed them feeding pond and rams and sell them to someone who loves their plants more than the snails. Personally, I let my snails go crazy as I like them more than the plants.
One person's ad mentioned that they will eat algae, flake food, etc like regular snails. When they get to feed on snails then they reproduce. Otherwise they don't reproduce or less so. According to the post I read.
This is one that would be a HUGE no no to release unintentially by putting it in an outside pond IMO.
Loaches, cory cats, puffers, cichlids, have all eaten snails for me in the past. I got some albino cory's and put them in with my briggs. They tore up their shells to get to the snails. Plenty of food available. Live food at that. Seed shrimp overpopulation in my brig tank so I put the cories in. They decimated the seed shrimp population too. I had to get rid of the albino cories to save some seed shrimp at least, and to keep the poor snails from being tore up. I loved cory cats. These were the devil.
