Not now, not ever. I said small changes. :razz:

I don't even know that a Dr in marine biology would give THAT much of a difinative answer to that question. Based upon two small photos that really don't show a heck of a lot.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

sorry , let me vrefrase the, the eyes and trunk and shell,
(colour and shape) look identical to my fighting conch..

so i am reasonable certian that it is a fighting Cconch, unless Dr. Ron lied to me when i asked him about mine, and was told it was from simular pics..

Darren, nice to see you back again to nitpick on posts.. your thread on RC must have slowed down enuf for you to grace us with your pressence.

Steve

DEFINITELY true, and a case of the pot calling the kettle black. :eek: We now have TWO guys nitpicking our posts. :razz:

Jon, do you really have 1000 brittle stars? We found that ours didn't really clean up-just hid in his favourite rock.

Not answering for Jon, but they come out after dark, and eat things.

Is there any chance of keeping things civil around here? In defense of Darren, I think he's pointing out that correct identification of members of the gastropoda class is difficult considering the sheer numbers of species. I'm interested in how big the fighting conche gets? Four inches seems huge and I was under the impression that they didn't get much bigger than 2.5". What are the differences between the queen and the fighting conches? Are there any easy to see physical differences other than size?

I thought we were quite civil. A little dig here and there is not uncivil is it? :eek:

And yes I think four inches for a snail is huge too. For other things it is not considered huge :mrgreen: That beast of mine grew to 2.5 inches in just a very few months. I think I have to cut down on his food supply real quick, because four inches in a 50 gallon tank is a bit much.

To answer your question Bob: my fighting conches are about 3/4 and 1 inch in lengths. I have had a few over the past and find that they don't grow too fast in my reef. Mine are 3 and 12 months old, with the older one being the larger one of course. However when something outgrows my reef, my roomate's 60gl always comes in handy for a new larger home wether it be a fish,coral,or crustacean.

And since were on the topic about conches and ID's. I once bought a strawberry conch and didn't know that this variety would grow so large. If I remember correctly, it looked alot like the smaller fighting conches that I have now.

Also, Dresden-I keep a six-line wrasse with my two fighting conches with no problems what so ever, with a larger wrasse species or a trigger I would use caution though.

cheers, Rich :mrgreen:

Yes Jenna I do. Seriously :eek: If I dump some food in the reef is covered with these little arms poking out of evey spot on the rock. Especially the porus tufa. They seem to love to hang out in the tufa rock.

At first I only had a few and then the multiplied like crazy in the past few months. All this from about 6 brittle stars I got from Delphinius on a piece of halamedia.