What to feed to trochus/cowrie/turbo snails

[Marine_Tank]

Hi Fellow Marine Enthusiasts,

Anyone can tell me how and what to feed to cone-shaped snails i.e trochus/ turbo or cowries snails ?

I have 5 snails both big and small and I am worried that they don't have much to eat in the tank after accomplishing their fantastic mission of clearing diatom and green algae within a night......

Guess they might die of starvation.

Btw, any idea what kind of nitrate level can they survive ?

[CKS]

either give away few of them..or feed ur tank with more food to up the nutrient

[Morgan]

Remember answering your question in another thread someday back!

[SharkBait]

Remember answering your question in another thread someday back!

Professor in a bad mood today

[Morgan]

No I am not

Just that this was asked afew days back.

[Marine_Tank]

Hi Morgan,

Got yr reply from the previous thread but just that I would like to get more opinions from the rest. I am worried that my snails may die cos' they don't have much algae or diatom to eat. They are very hardworking bunch of workers indeed - marine diatom get clear overnight..hahahaaa.

Looks like may have to give away some cos' I can't up the nutrients as my nitrate is very high >50ppm and I am merely doing monthly water change due to costs and time constraints.

Read from somewhere here that you can feed them with lettuce (from wet market) or dried seaweeds. Have tried feeding lettuce but to no avail.

Thanks fr all yr reply.

[CKS]

oh yea..those snails do feed on ulva too..but the ulva is my precious ... so heh