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marine snail id help

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    Default marine snail id help





    i have lots of tanks
    and im a welder who likes playing with glass

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    Default Snail ID

    It is a Nassarius Snail. Very helpfull in keeping your sand stirred. I have a few in my tank. I love how they pop out of the sand when I feed my fish, looking for leftovers.

    Nassarius Snail - Nassarius sp.

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    sweet thanks, i also found out they can do backflips if you take them out of the water to take a picture
    i have lots of tanks
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    lol, yeah ive have a few that climb up the glass and then fall straight to the bottom once they hit the top of the water. Once on the bottom they will do the flippy thing to right themselves. I had one that did it over and over again ( climbing up the glass, only to fall--or "jump" back down) did it for a few days.

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    More specifically, it's a Tonga nassarius. It's bigger than the standard nassarius snails that you usually see so it's an even better scavenger. Make sure you feed meaty foods like mysis shrimp so it can feed on leftovers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fkshiu View Post
    More specifically, it's a Tonga nassarius. It's bigger than the standard nassarius snails that you usually see so it's an even bigger scavenger. Make sure you feed meaty foods like mysis shrimp so it can feed on leftovers.
    it should have plenty to eat , all ive got in the tank with it is 2 yellow tail damsels, a banded coral shrimp and the tonga nassarius and chances are one of the damsels wont make it though the night because it got beat up pretty bad
    i have lots of tanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by spit.fire View Post
    it should have plenty to eat , all ive got in the tank with it is 2 yellow tail damsels, a banded coral shrimp and the tonga nassarius and chances are one of the damsels wont make it though the night because it got beat up pretty bad
    Is this the 2g??????

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    These are awesome snails. I have them in my tanks as main members of my clean up crew.

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    Quote Originally Posted by STANKYfish View Post
    Is this the 2g??????
    haha no, thhe 2 gal has 2 twintail female bettas in it now

    its in a 30gal
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    Thats good. I was wondering how all those cound fit in a 2g, ang how you could keep the water stable...

 

 
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