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Yep, it certainly looks like a cowrie

But I thought they ate fish?

But if you tame me, we shall need each other.

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You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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Check this out:

http://www.reefs.org/library/article/r_toonen18.html

Most species will graze anything from algae to sponges and cnidarians, but the majority of them are definitely eating a large proportion of animal prey in their normal diet.

But if you tame me, we shall need each other.

To me, you will be unique in all the world.

To you, I shall be unique in all the world...

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Keep our hobby sustainable, participate in fragging NOW

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The pic is certainly a cowrie. I have kept some with limited success - they seem no more hardy nor less hardy than turbo snails, and as far as I can make out they only perform about as well as turbo snails in keeping down nuisance algae.

On the up side they can look nice. On the down side they can be big and clumsy, and apparently they can eat corals and anemonies, although mine never have.

Real reefs don't have glass bottoms....(...think about it)

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