Baby Conchs

[glalderman]

I have had some baby snails running around in my frag tank lately...but this morning I took a better look at two of them on the glass and realized these two were conchs...one is about 1/4" long and the other about 3/8"...can see the two little eye stalks peering out and the long snout out eating...

sort of surprised...eggs must have been hitch hikers on some Cheato I traded or something...never had a conch in my frag tank...

cool none the less...wonder if I will be getting any more?

Greg

 

[crazyseany]

sweet find. I bought one from someone and put it in my tank. it is doing a great job on the sand as far as cleaning it up. he did bulldoze a couple of zoa frags though... oh well its a cool critter

sean

 

[t11t5]

Sean, glad to see its doing good.

 

[crazyseany]

oh yeah he's doing great.
I should've bought both of them....

 

[calypso1]

lol! i had the same thing happen a couple of months ago.

 

[glalderman]

well...I am up to 4 Conchs in the frag tank and another 3 or 4 in my HOB fuge that I am pretty sure are Conchs..although only about 1/8" long right now...

Hopefully some of them will survive...that would be sort of cool! Being stationed in the Keys once...I really like Conch fritters! DOH!

wonder how long before big enough to eat?! LOL!

Greg

 

[glalderman]

OK, OK...I know...I am acting all giddy like a school girl...but I think this is cool...

anyway...can someone ID the type of conch from this picture?

this is the biggest one I have found...about 3/8" long...

OK...back to being a grown up...

Greg

 

[calypso1]

Well you got me by the short and curlys.lol
mine have a red foot.

 

[crazyseany]

that Is a portonana conch. they feed on mostly micro fauna and sps and soft corals

do not believe anything above in this post. once again I prove I have no idea what I'm talking about.

sorry greg. wish I could help. nice pic though!

 

[glalderman]

Dagnabit Sean...you had me going there...I was like "OH S**T! Got to go down and destroy those things!" LOL!

 

[calypso1]

lol!