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#1 User is offline   ScottLand 

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 12:01 AM

I got some Horned Nerites(Striped,green,black,and hairy)a couple days ago.While I was acclimating some FRC baby shrimp I got from Henry(Chrome)I saw these snails out so I took pics.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/Scott-Land/Dwarf%20Shrimp/IMG_0261corona.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/Scott-Land/Dwarf%20Shrimp/IMG_0273.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/Scott-Land/Dwarf%20Shrimp/IMG_0295bumblebee.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/Scott-Land/Dwarf%20Shrimp/IMG_0307onrock.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/Scott-Land/Dwarf%20Shrimp/IMG_0311onpearl.jpg
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/Scott-Land/Dwarf%20Shrimp/IMG_0315spike.jpg
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 02:22 AM

Thanks for sharing your photos of these guys. I have these snails in my tank too and they are great algae eaters. I really like the cool and edgy look the spikes/horns add to these snails :tumup: .
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 09:36 AM

Nice looking snail collection, thanks for sharing the pictures with us. :D
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 12:05 PM

View PostNeonshrimp, on 29 July 2010 - 02:22 AM, said:

Thanks for sharing your photos of these guys. I have these snails in my tank too and they are great algae eaters. I really like the cool and edgy look the spikes/horns add to these snails :tumup: .

Thanks Richard and Aquagirl!
These are great!I wanted to get the Sundial snails s well but he was out . <_<
Here is a Hairy or more like a porcupine snail :)
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/Scott-Land/Dwarf%20Shrimp/IMG_0335spike.jpg

I think one of the blacks may have died(it has not moved for a long time)and I tryed to get a pic of a nice big black one but my camera did not cooperate.

Richard or whoever knows :D
Do the broken spikes regenerate/grow back?
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 04:48 PM

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 05:15 PM

If you can find the snail shell of the one that you think died pick it up and smell it. Dead snails will smell really nasty. If the shell is empty the other snails may have already eaten it.
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 05:47 PM

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If you can find the snail shell of the one that you think died pick it up and smell it. Dead snails will smell really nasty. If the shell is empty the other snails may have already eaten it.

Thanks Aquagirl and Rachael!
I am planning on doing that,it appears to be clinging to a rock so I will wait and see if the bigger snails snack on it or it move.If neather occurs by tomorrow I will pick it up and go from there. The others are zooming around. :tumup: although after I posted the porcupine pic a P.bridgei(Moon snail)ran it over and probably broke the spines. :taz:

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Posted 29 July 2010 - 08:49 PM

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Do the broken spikes regenerate/grow back?

This is something you will have to let us know ;)

I have not had to deal with this situation yet.
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Posted 29 July 2010 - 10:48 PM

View PostNeonshrimp, on 29 July 2010 - 08:49 PM, said:

This is something you will have to let us know ;)

I have not had to deal with this situation yet.

Lucky you! :thumbup:
I hope they do !

On another note I think the one black snail I thought was dead finally moved when I accidentally knocked it off the rock and the porcupine snail in the pic still has spines. :yay:
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Posted 30 July 2010 - 12:48 AM

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On another note I think the one black snail I thought was dead finally moved when I accidentally knocked it off the rock and the porcupine snail in the pic still has spines. :yay:

That is great news, hope it stays that way :D
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Posted 01 August 2010 - 11:21 PM

View PostNeonshrimp, on 30 July 2010 - 12:48 AM, said:

That is great news, hope it stays that way :D

Thanks !
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