SlugSnorter
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Saw those guys on Reef Cleaners, they look really cool, and I love the idea of a big ol' mega cerith, but my tank is too small for them. Anyone keep them? very few photos I can find.
Giant Knobby Creeper Keepers?
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blaxsun
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Just the regular ceriths for me. Even in my 160-gallon system I suspect they'd get hung up on the rock work. I think if you have a lot of surface area with your sand bed they'd probably be right at home.
chimbo84
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I found this thread googling about them because my reef cleaners order just arrived and they substituted the African Trochus I ordered for one of these. Let me just say that I’m glad I have a 120 with a lot of sand for it to burrow in. It’s big… likely 3.5” long and 1.5” wide it looks super cool though and provides a contrast to the other snails in my tank. I’ve named him Spartacus.
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SlugSnorter
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can I get some pics? I love them but my tank is too small...
chimbo84
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I’ll post some pics as soon as it decides to come out of the sand. It’s been bulldozing under my 2” sand bed since it arrived yesterday. If it keeps this up it might just be the best sand stirrer ever. My sand bed looks amazing right now.
Greengirl
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I got one for my small tank (10 gal?) since I have a lot of debris/diatoms/cyano etc. I have no fish or corals, just Caulerpa mainly. No sand, but pebble bottom, so he cruised the surface of the pebbles bulldozing my plants so I named him "Turbo". Not very imaginative I know. He would try to clean the glass walls periodically which was amazing to watch but he would also fall off onto his back so I'd have to right him. Recently he stopped moving and I noticed a yellow nodule on his black foot. He was still alive so I tried him in a separate small tank with more diatoms and sand, and Halimeda, but he didn't pep up. I scraped off the crusty yellow nodule the other day and after letting him recover a few days I put him back in the original tank. It has lots of cyano but he's not moving or eating as far as I can tell : ( I inverted him and touched his foot to see if he's alive and it seems to withdraw but he's very sluggish now. Any ideas on how to rescue him? I monitor the ammonia/nitrate/nitrite, salinity so I know those are OK, but have no idea what conditions would bother a snail. My other snails are doing great. I did see on another site that these guys eat "some types of cyano" so it's possible my tank is overrun with one type and there is little else for food, but I would have thought then he'd thrive in the other tank with sand, and a diatoms and other stuff.
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SlugSnorter
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some cyano is poisonous and kills some inverts that eat it. Thats a possibility. Also, ceriths do better when they have a sandbed that they can burrow into, as that is their natural behavior. Ceriths are also often nocturnal, and may not be active during the day.
