Indo Pacific Strombus eat cyano?

[BrianPlankis]

Hey all,

I had a few questions to throw out to everyone here....

1. Do you own any of the snails that Indo-Pacific Sea Farms sells as Strombus maculatus?

2. Do they reproduce easily in your aquarium?

3. Do they eat the dreaded cyano as advertised on their FAQ page? http://www.ipsf.com/strombusfaqs.html

Brian

 

[romunov]

Yes
No
No

 

[ALTI]

ditto

 

[BrianPlankis]

Hum...two no's on not reproducing easily. Do you get ANY babies that survive to adults? Do you have any potential snail predators in your tanks? (wrasses, hermits, etc) How heavily do you skim?

Thanks,

Brian

 

[Quincy2374]

I have some, and they are breeding, quite often. As far as reaching adulthood, I probably have a couple almost there, out of maybe twenty or thirty babies.

My tanks just a few months old, with no fish yet, and unfortunately, they don't seem to eat any of the profuse cyano I'm currently battling.

 

[BrianPlankis]

Thanks for the info everyone. Where to the snails typically graze? Mostly glass/overflows, rock, sand?

I'm trying to add a breeding snail to my mix that spends a lot of time on the glass.

Thanks,

Brian

 

[olin]

Mostly glass for me.
Yes
No*
Yes
* they don't have good survival in my reef (babies at least) I think it's predation. I have good success raising them alone in 1 gallon pickle jars. Also, they will breed a lot in areas of high water flow. I've done well placing a ceramic tile in the flow from a powerhead, then after a couple of weeks they have a bunch of egg masses on it, and i take the tile out and raise them in a separate tank.

 

[BrianPlankis]

olin,

Thanks for the input. Looks like I might have to try some of these if they spend lots of time on the glass.

I currently have breeding:
1 trochus species that spends most of its time on the rocks.
1 cerith species that spends 75% of its time on the sand/rocks and 25% on the glass.

So these guys should round things out, I won't have any predation (or at least minimal from hitchhikers only). If they eat cyano that is just a bonus.

Brian

 

[romunov]

Mine stay on the glass most of the time... I rarely see them anywhere else. They lay a lot of eggs, but I've never observed any offspring. I do see little babies getting out of the capsule, but... I have a DSB with a lot of worms, so I can only guess who's munching on them.

 

[racrumrine]

I believe I have them. They came from another reefer who got them from someone else. Mine look like the pictures I have seen of them. Unfortunately, IP doesn't post a picture on their site. Here is a picture of mine (sorry for the fuzzy shot):

Mine stay on the glass for the most part. They lay egg bubbles with about 6 to 8 babies each. The babies hatch as miniture adults and start eating algae right away. They are successfully growing to adulthood in my 180. I started with about 7 and now have grown about 200 in about a year. They seem to take a few months to reach adulthood. I'm still trying to figure out their lifecycle.

So far, I have only seen mine eat the green algae that grows on the glass. They are a great little snail.

How do you get your Trochus to breed? As far as I know, I have only been successful with one baby.

I also have collonista snails which breed like rabbits and I'm trying to raise black ceriths that have reproduced like crazy in someone else's tank.

Best of luck,

Roy

 

[BrianPlankis]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6510526#post6510526 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by racrumrine
I believe I have them. They came from another reefer who got them from someone else. Mine look like the pictures I have seen of them. Unfortunately, IP doesn't post a picture on their site. Here is a picture of mine (sorry for the fuzzy shot):

Mine stay on the glass for the most part. They lay egg bubbles with about 6 to 8 babies each. The babies hatch as miniture adults and start eating algae right away. They are successfully growing to adulthood in my 180. I started with about 7 and now have grown about 200 in about a year. They seem to take a few months to reach adulthood. I'm still trying to figure out their lifecycle.

So far, I have only seen mine eat the green algae that grows on the glass. They are a great little snail.

How do you get your Trochus to breed? As far as I know, I have only been successful with one baby.

I also have collonista snails which breed like rabbits and I'm trying to raise black ceriths that have reproduced like crazy in someone else's tank.

Best of luck,

Roy

Thanks for the info! Those do look like the ones, at least superficially by a picture

My trochus just breed like crazy on their own. I get at least 1 spawning a month, sometimes 2 or 3 on their own. A couple of times my tank water parameters are not ideal to my liking, for example Alk around 7 (I prefer around 10) or Salinity at 1.027 or 1.028 and I prefer 1.026.

I will then make up a 10-30% WC that has parameters to move the values back to what I want (such as salinity 1.023 or 1.024 and Alk values around 10-12dKH). Several times when I have done this the snails have bred either that night or the next day. It could just be a coincidence, but it could also be a slight stress response to the values changing.

Brian