I love my sand-burrowing snails. Some of them are very pretty with orange spots on their shells, others just plain cream color. They have the bonus of being pretty entertaining.
They remain in the sandbed until there's food around, then they all erupt from the sand bed like little tanks and crawl extremely quickly (amazing speed!) to the food.
Once I dropped a clam in (food) and they were all over it in no time. The trigger only got a few bites. So pretty good at searching out dead/extra food stuff.
Be careful when siphoning the sandbed. But you can usually see them and their siphons poking out. They are usually about a nickel-size at the store. They grow very slowly, too.
|