Mystery coral that travels??? Who knows??

[mie]

What kind is this and how do I care for it? it is currently mia as it travels with the snail. Should I kill the snail and put it on a high rock or what, I am not a coral person so I would like some help, thanks.

 

[alix2.0]

i saw your other thread about this, personally i think i would kill the snail...

 

[mie]

I was told to repost in here and yes i agree with you about smoking the snail.

 

[b-baby80]

Originally Posted by mie
I was told to repost in here and yes i agree with you about smoking the snail.

I think thats cruel.How would you feel if someone killed you for your house.Just because they loved your flowers?

It's been on the snail all this time and is fine.So i would just leave it be.

 

[alix2.0]

Originally Posted by B-Baby80
I think thats cruel.How would you feel if someone killed you for your house.Just because they loved your flowers?

It's been on the snail all this time and is fine.So i would just leave it be.
its a SNAIL. how many have you stepped on or salted or drowned in beer in your life? one more isnt going to hurt...

 

[b-baby80]

Originally Posted by alix2.0
its a SNAIL. how many have you stepped on or salted or drowned in beer in your life? one more isnt going to hurt...
It may just be a SNAIL but they are our responsibility.Your not a very responsible aquarium keeper.If you kill things just because you feel like it

Just for the record i wasn't one of those cruel people.Who killed snails just for kicks.I'm the girl who raised a deer because her mother was shot by hunters.Just for the record anyway

 

[mie]

Originally Posted by B-Baby80
I think thats cruel.How would you feel if someone killed you for your house.Just because they loved your flowers?

It's been on the snail all this time and is fine.So i would just leave it be.
Have you ever killed a bug in your life? I am not a huge fan of killing things just because, but this warrants it in my opinion. Besides what if the snail dies or gets eaten and is stuck under a rock then both are dead. I almost feel like i am saving one life here. But I still want to know what kind of coral it is etc..

 

[b-baby80]

My question is.Did you not notice it when you put the snail in?Then it was probably tiny and is growing just fine on the snail.I would just monitor it.if for some reason it disappears for more than a couple days.then i would search for it.I doubt the coral would die in that amount of time without light.
Just trying to give options.Other than killing the poor snail.It's just doing it's job.

 

[paintballer768]

That looks like one of them rare Fiji Coral Snails ya got there.

 

[salt monger]

hey b-baby... good thing you're not a snail, cause i'd squash ya'. that's what we do as humans.... that's why we have thumbs, do you try to increase your pods population to feed your fish? look at the ingredients on your fish food... full of fish and other little creatures, do you wear leather, eat meat? what is one more snail? i say glue it to the rock without killing it and lets see how long it lives in one place...lol (just kidding about that one)

 

[jmick]

Looks like porites on your snail and if so, they will need lots of lights, good flow and good water qaulity. I agree with the above posters, I'd smoke the snail and glue the shell in place somewhere.

 

[peef]

Wow, another heated argument. Bah, I don't see a problem smokin the snail. BUT I personally would leave it be and have a SWEET roaming coral snail. I have wanted one with coral for ages, I even tried to get xenia to grow on ones shell for S&G.

 

[t316]

If you left it alone, wouldn't the coral eventually get big enough that the snail would get tired of dragging it around, thus the snail will abandon his shell and find a another one? Assuming you have some other empty shells in the tank for him to choose from.

 

[zeroc]

umm... snails can't switch shells. but i'd leave it, it's lived this long let it be maybe it'll propagate it somewhere else.

 

[t316]

I didn't know that

I knew hermit crabs could...just assumed the snails could as well.

 

[b-baby80]

Originally Posted by salt monger
hey b-baby... good thing you're not a snail, cause i'd squash ya'. that's what we do as humans.... that's why we have thumbs, do you try to increase your pods population to feed your fish? look at the ingredients on your fish food... full of fish and other little creatures, do you wear leather, eat meat? what is one more snail? i say glue it to the rock without killing it and lets see how long it lives in one place...lol (just kidding about that one)
First of all thats not why we have thumbs.Secondly it's one thing to buy something that has dead fish in it.It's another thing.To buy something living.Thus taking on the responsibility of caring for it.Then just killing it because we feel like it.Imagine what the world would be.If we just killed whenever we felt like it

 

[paintballer768]

Yea heated conversation is putting it lightly. Id let the snail live for a bit more and see if the coral grows more. If it does, then I say smoke it. But thats just me.

 

[alix2.0]

i say smoke it anyway, its a snail. i wouldnt want to risk the coral.
haha, mie- maybe you should put a poll on this thread for kill it / let it live!

 

[teen]

i would personally just leave the snail alone.
think of it this way. the coral grew on the snail, the snail didnt grow on the coral.

 

[renogaw]

how bout trying to frag it off the snail? i had some zoas on a whelk that i removed before banishing him to the fuge.
and btw, it looks like a piorite