lattehiatus
Past President
Time to trim down the population! These Nassarius vibex snails are reproducing quickly.
Quick care information: Full size is approximately 1/4". Typically part of a clean-up crew, these are detrivores that will consume leftover food and dying organisms. They prefer a fine sand substrate to burrow in but will also climb glass and rocks, and although not optimal, can subsist in a bare-bottom tank. These snails exhibit some amusing behavior when they race across the sand during feeding time, and they appear to enjoy competitions where multiple snails will climb up the glass, detach, and fall to the sand. X-treme snail sports? :bigsmile:
I can produce 3 packs of a dozen snails each. Pickup at the upcoming swap on September 8th preferred.
Preference will be given to those who have HOB refugiums. In correspondence with GDawson, it seems that we both have reproducing nassarius populations, and we also both have refugiums that return water to the display by gravity instead of by pump. The nassarius life cycle is supposed to have a veliger larval stage that lasts several weeks, so it is possible that the lack of centrifugal pumps allows the veliger to survive. I would be interested to see if anyone can replicate breeding in their systems to pass these forward. I wasn't certain these are definitively Nassarius vibex, so I asked Dr. Ron Shimek to weigh in, and he believes that they are indeed Nassarius.
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Quick care information: Full size is approximately 1/4". Typically part of a clean-up crew, these are detrivores that will consume leftover food and dying organisms. They prefer a fine sand substrate to burrow in but will also climb glass and rocks, and although not optimal, can subsist in a bare-bottom tank. These snails exhibit some amusing behavior when they race across the sand during feeding time, and they appear to enjoy competitions where multiple snails will climb up the glass, detach, and fall to the sand. X-treme snail sports? :bigsmile:
I can produce 3 packs of a dozen snails each. Pickup at the upcoming swap on September 8th preferred.
Preference will be given to those who have HOB refugiums. In correspondence with GDawson, it seems that we both have reproducing nassarius populations, and we also both have refugiums that return water to the display by gravity instead of by pump. The nassarius life cycle is supposed to have a veliger larval stage that lasts several weeks, so it is possible that the lack of centrifugal pumps allows the veliger to survive. I would be interested to see if anyone can replicate breeding in their systems to pass these forward. I wasn't certain these are definitively Nassarius vibex, so I asked Dr. Ron Shimek to weigh in, and he believes that they are indeed Nassarius.
[youtube]r2pYEqdHSSk[/youtube]
