Looking for shelled hitchhikers

[svynx]

Anyone getting in crabs, snails...things of that nature that they don't want in their system, let me know. I will gladly take them off your hands. My mantis tank is stocked for now, but I'm always looking for inexpensive/free things for it. Even small pest anems.
Thanks.

I'll post some pics of the tank once she has become accustom to the new surroundings.
Joel

 

[NCNBilly]

I have conchs that I'll be passing out to everyone in the next couple months. They are slightly larger than nassarius and have been breeding like crazy (even in my tank-of-doom). I bought 4 in May and I have at least 10 adults and 40 or 50 juveniles.

They lay egg cases (each has 20-30 eggs) almost daily, my new K4 has about 20 egg cases on it - almost EVERY fin.

They are 100% herbivores, and show no preference for rock or glass, but I don't know the exact species. They were called "nano-conchs" and came from FraggleReef.com.

 

[svynx]

That's what I have in my DT at home. They do breed like crazy. And it was because of them that I started really looking into mantis shrimps, knowing that I would always have something to feed it. I am looking more for things that would pose issues in our DT's. Gorilla crabs, some mullusks..that kind of thing.

 

[Tampico96]

Wow, a clean up crew that gets larger. Nice. Why am I always interested in those things that become plaguesto others, must be the fact that I have only been in the hobby for a year.

 

[svynx]

Yeah, it's great. I don't have to restock, and if algae starts to become a problem, they just multiply faster, and take care of the problem. I looked in my tank this morning before heading for work (took me an extra 30 min because of the roads) and found two lines of cerith snail eggs.

 

[NCNBilly]

Too bad they don't eat asterinas. I have a few billion of them.