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today i was looking at my bastimentos pumilio and i saw him/her eat a snail. it was microscopic and i think it was a baby becuase it was white and looked very squishy. is that bad for him and will it cause impaction? it was smaller than the crix i feed him now if that helps. i feed pinhead crix and the snail was the size of one of those heads. here are some pics of him/her:

I don't think you have to worry about impaction, if the snail is as you describe it as a new hatchling. Are you certain it was a snail and not some kind of larval insect? My imitator tadpoles eat snails, but they rip them out of the shells. I have some very tiny snails in most of my tanks that sometimes wander too close to the tads' lair in a brome leaf. The adults don't eat them.
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Patty
Pahsimeroi, Idaho

4 D. auratus blue
5 D. galactonotus pumpkin orange splash back
7 D. imitator
6 D. leucomelas
4 D. pumilio Bastimentos
4 D. fantasticus
6 P. terribilis mint and organe
4 D. reticulatus
4 D. castaneoticus
2 D. azureus
4 P vittatus
2 P. lugubris

i am pretty sure it was a baby snail, i don't feed him fruit flies so i don't know what kind of maggot it could have been, thanks for the help!