Another Apple Snail Question

[meanjean]

So my co-worker and small child caught my apple snail eating a rasbora tonight.

I left my office at 5:30 for a meeting, and everything was fine in the tank. Then a co-worker went into my office with a kid around six to show him the snail, and the kid freaks out becase she's eating a fish and its halfway out it's mouth. Well the kid starts screaming "help it help it" and my co-worker puts his arm in the tank (business shirt and all) and taps on the snail so it releases the fish. I come into my office at seven tonight and find half a rasbora stuck to the intake filter, a wet and irritated co worker, and a snail eating algae from under the filter.

When I left at five thirty all was well.

Could the snail have killed the fish?

The rasbora was maybe just less than an inch long, the snail is probably 2.5-3 inches long (shell only).

 

[Pure]

Nope, The fish died then the snail ate it. They are scavengers not predators. Not to mention the fish would have to have been in a coma for the snail to catch it.

Those snails can take in an unbelievable amount of food too. I had an Apple snail that was smaller than a large marble eat an entire Betta over the course of a weekend. I came to work and found only one tiny scrap of vertebrate and that was all that was left.