Nassarius Snails Breeding In My Tank

[Achilles Tang]

Hi folks, several months ago, I got about 70 nassarious snails from Maxima. I heard that these snails are hard to breed but he has been able to do so with the use of mud substrates and provision of algae in his outdoor fibreglass clam tank.

Also, breeding is only possible if you have very large specimens 'Queen Kong' nassarious snails, I believed he called them!

To my surprise, recently in the past few weeks, I noticed the emergence of many tiny nassarious snails in my tank and it was probably due to a very large 'Queen Kong' nassarious snail I remembered seeing before in my tank. It should probably be around 3cm in size? The last time I saw it was about a year back and now it has made its reappearance again... probably due to the many suitors available?

I now have about 30 or more of these baby snails of very sizes wondering around my tank and they seem to be busy wondering on rocks and the glass wall munching on algae, unlike the usual adult size ones that are usually buried in the sand.

Anyway, here's Queen Kong, about 3 cm long.

[Achilles Tang]

Here's some of the new brood!

The tiniest ones are about 1 to 2mm long.

[FuEl]

I've always known nassarius snails are EVIL!

[Achilles Tang]

And here's the rest of the sand gang...

[FuEl]

Wow...look like they are planning to take over the world..or in this case AT's tank.

My nassarius very lonely..the loner who arrived with liverock...

[Achilles Tang]

They should be fed regularly... otherwise, their scavenger role will become that of a opportunistic feeder... hahaha...

Anyway, they help to turn the top layer of the sandbed over and help remove excess food, decaying matter quickly and efficiently.

I like them!

[FuEl]

Yea...like little troops marching over your sand bed..lol!

Btw..initially when I saw my nassarius I did'nt know what it was...I almost killed it...as I thought it would grow bigger and hunt my fishes by harpooning them...looks like it wun get any bigger.

[flubberina13]

Hey...wanna start a 'Adopt Nassarius snails' thread?

I will be first in line...

[Anthony]

i have about 25 Nassarius Snails in my 2ft. when i feed my suncorals, almost all of them camp around the suncoral snatching for food

they always on the glass cleaning rather then cleaning my sandbed

[FuEl]

Hey...wanna start a 'Adopt Nassarius snails' thread?

I will be first in line...

I'm second!

[Ancelot]

I want some too! I WANT SOME! plz plz !

[ai[k²]wan]

me too!!

[sphinx]

mee 3!!!!

[Terryz_]

how big is the usual size...

[FuEl]

Wow..now then I noticed the nassarius snails on AT's sand bed are all moving in the same direction...EVIL!

[Achilles Tang]

I dropped food onto one end of the sandbed...

[Hon]

My 2 nassarius like to play hide-n-seek game with me. Till these days, I still cannot track them down .... No food can hoax them out of their hiding spot.

[Cookiemunster]

Hmmm with the way AT gets horny over his fireworms, I really wonder who the daddy of the snails is.

[Hon]

cookie ... need to be so direct meh ??

[Cookiemunster]

Who me???

[bum]

i recently got some from maxima,

he also gave a queen kong!!

but

just yesterday, i saw one of my dwarf hermits sporting

his new queen kong shell

i like them, they keep my sand bed relatively clean

[Achilles Tang]

Aha! Spotted eggs sacs! Could only be the nassarius snails!

[Achilles Tang]

Another nassarius snail species' egg sacs.

Much smaller in size. My front glass has more than 16 seperate eggs sacs on it... i destroyed a few with my cleaning magnet.

[Achilles Tang]

Another view... pardon the threads on the glass!

[jOO]

wow AT... i bet at this rate you would have to really really start an 'adopt nessarius snails' campaign now woudn't you... *hint*hint* you can't have a tank full of snails rite?*HINT*HINT*...