Ok, netting out these guys are a lot easier said than done, I had to use tongues to pick as much as I can get to without moving my corals around. Also it looks like there is a boat load of them behind my rock work that I can't get to but they are way more than 50 as I thought.
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Lionfish Lair
Renee
And you only put 5 in?
Lionfish Lair
Renee
Did you put rock in recently?
Lionfish Lair
Renee
They don't breed in people's tanks, so I have no idea. Do you have a picture of one of the larger ones?
Lionfish Lair
Renee
Oh I'm not the authority, I've just been hanging around hitchhiker stuff for a long time.
My brain is telling me logically that it's not a nass, because I would have run into more instances of them propagating in tanks. Those pictures though, totally look like a nass. I was looking for a picture of one of the larger original 5 to see if is indeed the same snail.
Lionfish Lair
Renee
I'm going through my catalogs, to see what else I can come up with. I know I'm asking for a lot of pictures, but could you get one with the "hole side" up and make the snail go in?
Lionfish Lair
Renee
Like flip them up like this...
Here you go, I hope these work, disregard the orangutan fingers! but I can't really tell which are the originals I am not finding them, I will look again on the next feed but I recall these were a lot darker as well so maybe the dark one was one of them I have no idea right now. I am trying to dig out old pictures.
Lionfish Lair
Renee
That totally looks like a nassararius. It may not be the genus, but the family has got to be Nassariidae.
Thanks a lot, I will keep an eye to find the originals but I am not too concerned as long as they are nassararius I was mainly curious since there were a lot of them. what about the trochus these don't commonly breed as well? because I have dozens now as small as a grain of sand to as big as a kalamata olive and I also only added 5?
Lionfish Lair
Renee
Banded trochus do reproduce in tanks. It's not super common, but I've read about them several times and have seen the pictures.
@Lionfish Lair , I was finally able to catch the very small ones, attached pictures for comparison with the other size and the ruler is in metric / millimeter. I have them captive in a plastic container for now if you want more pictures.
Lionfish Lair
Renee
Do you mind if I bring those pictures somewhere else?
On the Banded trochus babies up there... those are actually collonistas.
On the Banded trochus babies up there... those are actually collonistas.
