The Snail Diaries.

rosieosieee · Nov 19, 2015

Tanggirl12 said:
Will do!
Fighting Conch looking at you

haha yes! thank you! another great giant snail, i love their eyes.

JVH · Nov 21, 2015

Hi, I'm glad I found this forum I love my snails too! I have about 15 various in my 68 gallon tank.
I've been keeping a saltwater reef tank going on a year but I've only noticed for the first time this week what appears to be a slime trail left by one of the nessarious snails. It almost looks like a thin layer of cement in sort of a curly cue pattern. I have just read about slime that snails leave on the glass but I've never seen it before today. Some say it could be eggs others say snails just leave slime what do you think it could be I don't believe it something to worry about but I don't know if it's eggs? Now that I think about it my sand sometimes has some kind of gooey substance in it maybe it's slime from the snails all along I never considered that. Does anybody have thoughts on that?
Thanks

rosieosieee · Nov 21, 2015

JVH said:
Hi, I'm glad I found this forum I love my snails too! I have about 15 various in my 68 gallon tank.
I've been keeping a saltwater reef tank going on a year but I've only noticed for the first time this week what appears to be a slime trail left by one of the nessarious snails. It almost looks like a thin layer of cement in sort of a curly cue pattern. I have just read about slime that snails leave on the glass but I've never seen it before today. Some say it could be eggs others say snails just leave slime what do you think it could be I don't believe it something to worry about but I don't know if it's eggs? Now that I think about it my sand sometimes has some kind of gooey substance in it maybe it's slime from the snails all along I never considered that. Does anybody have thoughts on that?
Thanks

I'm not sure but my nessarious do the same! has never hurt anything.

rosieosieee · Nov 21, 2015

one of the GIANT Mexican turbos I picked up today:)

Tanggirl12 · Nov 21, 2015

rosieosieee said:
one of the GIANT Mexican turbos I picked up today:)

I have one almost the size of my fist that I have not seen since before summer, I spied him the other night with my flash light, so surprised.

rosieosieee · Nov 21, 2015

Tanggirl12 said:
I have one almost the size of my fist that I have not seen since before summer, I spied him the other night with my flash light, so surprised.

holy hell! I hope these guys live a long time a grow. my friend has a 180g with a nasty hair algae issue so they're going to help him then they're going to end up in my 60. hopefully I'll finally get to have it where I live next year.

Tanggirl12 · Nov 22, 2015

rosieosieee said:
holy hell! I hope these guys live a long time a grow. my friend has a 180g with a nasty hair algae issue so they're going to help him then they're going to end up in my 60. hopefully I'll finally get to have it where I live next year.

I've had him for almost two years

rosieosieee · Nov 22, 2015

Tanggirl12 said:
I've had him for almost two years

how many snails do you think you have total in your tank?

WhoKnowsSebastian · Nov 22, 2015

Awesome thread! As a previous cone snail researcher I cannot agree more that snails are awesome. Although these snails I worked with ate fish... probably not a good idea for a reef tank unless u had to get rid of some fire worms.

http://www.asknature.org/strategy/71a3fb933086296a1cc1cbe1bc4b6317

And as for the janitors of our tanks, I love them. All. Haven't had a fighting Conch are they friendly?

rosieosieee · Nov 22, 2015

WhoKnowsSebastian said:
Awesome thread! As a previous cone snail researcher I cannot agree more that snails are awesome. Although these snails I worked with ate fish... probably not a good idea for a reef tank unless u had to get rid of some fire worms.

http://www.asknature.org/strategy/71a3fb933086296a1cc1cbe1bc4b6317

And as for the janitors of our tanks, I love them. All. Haven't had a fighting Conch are they friendly?

thanks, that's awesome!

yes, their name definitely deceives them. they do not fight with other snails or fish in the tank! they just get rather large sometimes, so they're better for bigger tanks.

Tanggirl12 · Nov 23, 2015

rosieosieee said:
how many snails do you think you have total in your tank?

Just a handful, and mainly nassarius, I haven't replaced any and have a trigger that may or may not be a snail eater.

rosieosieee · Nov 23, 2015

Tanggirl12 said:
Just a handful, and mainly nassarius, I haven't replaced any and have a trigger that may or may not be a snail eater.

interesting. trying to figure out my CUC for the 60, I'm going to make it an lps tank next year. was thinking about getting a **** box for it but I can occasionally get stuff at cost from work, and a radion would be cool.