just curious if anyone else has had this experience...
about 2 months ago i bought 12 strombus snails from IPSF... feedback was that they'd breed freely in healthy tanks, and yep -- breed they have. i now have hundreds of baby strombus snails... or, should i say, baby columbellids -- apparently what IPSF markets as "strombus maculatus" is actually some kind of columbellid -- http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-07/rs/
as a side-note, also in the IPSF group o' stuff was something they called "hawaiian turbo snail", but is actually a tiger cowrie (and is probably my favorite snail ever)... so IPSF has good stuff, although they're not perhaps the most rigorous taxonomists.
what's most interesting is that the wee columbellids gravitate to patches of bryopsis -- at first i thought they were just using the bryo patches for protection, but then i noticed that they were actually eating the stuff... i'll see a bryo patch with about 20 babies in it, and the next day the patch has a stripped, mushy appearance and then breaks down completely over the next few days.
the adult snails don't have any interest in the bryopsis...
anyone?
about 2 months ago i bought 12 strombus snails from IPSF... feedback was that they'd breed freely in healthy tanks, and yep -- breed they have. i now have hundreds of baby strombus snails... or, should i say, baby columbellids -- apparently what IPSF markets as "strombus maculatus" is actually some kind of columbellid -- http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-07/rs/
as a side-note, also in the IPSF group o' stuff was something they called "hawaiian turbo snail", but is actually a tiger cowrie (and is probably my favorite snail ever)... so IPSF has good stuff, although they're not perhaps the most rigorous taxonomists.
what's most interesting is that the wee columbellids gravitate to patches of bryopsis -- at first i thought they were just using the bryo patches for protection, but then i noticed that they were actually eating the stuff... i'll see a bryo patch with about 20 babies in it, and the next day the patch has a stripped, mushy appearance and then breaks down completely over the next few days.
the adult snails don't have any interest in the bryopsis...
anyone?
