Keeping Snails
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saltfish123
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did u ever use copper??
bigskyreef
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Hermits are known to kill snails.
earlybird
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Originally Posted by bigskyreef
Hermits are known to kill snails.
Especially blue legs. Which is why you should have extra shells for them to play in. Do your crabs end up wearing the dead snails shells? What do you keep your sg at? Snails and inverts require higher around 1.024-1.027.
Hermits are known to kill snails.
Especially blue legs. Which is why you should have extra shells for them to play in. Do your crabs end up wearing the dead snails shells? What do you keep your sg at? Snails and inverts require higher around 1.024-1.027.
promisetbg
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What type of snails? What is your temp? Nitrates, phosphates,PH, Alk?
sandi
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The hermits are the culprit. I have just about lost all my snails to the little killers. They even kills each other and believe me I have plenty of emply shells in my tank for them to have - they don't need to fight over them or kill snails to get them. I am taking all of my hermits to the LFS. I am not going to have them in my reef anymore.
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nereef
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i used to have trouble keeping snails when i had my s.g. lower. i've since raised it to 1.025 and don't have any trouble now.
promisetbg
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There is a silent killer of snails as well. Many tanks have them, and their keepers keep blaming hermits and are none the wiser. It is a common hitchiker known as a polyclad flatworm. They can scruntch up unnoticable under rocks by day, but at night they go on the prowl for their prey. They can grow as big or bigger than your hand, are generally a speckled color,transparent, and thinner than paper. They have a noticeable oral disc.It covers the snail with this, injects it's venom, which turns the snail into a digestable form.
earlybird
Active Member
Originally Posted by promisetbg
There is a silent killer of snails as well. Many tanks have them, and their keepers keep blaming hermits and are none the wiser. It is a common hitchiker known as a polyclad flatworm. They can scruntch up unnoticable under rocks by day, but at night they go on the prowl for their prey. They can grow as big or bigger than your hand, are generally a speckled color,transparent, and thinner than paper. They have a noticeable oral disc.It covers the snail with this, injects it's venom, which turns the snail into a digestable form.
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There is a silent killer of snails as well. Many tanks have them, and their keepers keep blaming hermits and are none the wiser. It is a common hitchiker known as a polyclad flatworm. They can scruntch up unnoticable under rocks by day, but at night they go on the prowl for their prey. They can grow as big or bigger than your hand, are generally a speckled color,transparent, and thinner than paper. They have a noticeable oral disc.It covers the snail with this, injects it's venom, which turns the snail into a digestable form.
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briand7878
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every snail that i have found dead had a bristleworm in it.
