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Old 08-04-2012, 11:03 PM
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Tonga narcs or conches. narcs are carnivors, but only eat dead stuff.. to the OP..tried putting the clams up on the rock work?
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Old 08-04-2012, 11:13 PM
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I have one of the same snails. Sold to me as a peanut snail.
Verocias eaters. Watched mine strip a mussle in 5 minutes

I never had issues with being predatory. And if I feed and the snails and hermits explode with activity I take this as a sign to feed a little more

Try tossing two small half shells in
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Old 08-05-2012, 06:07 PM
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I've never seen them behaving in a predatory manner, just voracious. They never seen to get full, and their little mouth tube can stretch to pretty unbelievable lengths if they're trying to get at something in a hard to reach spot. When I was trying to catch my tang, I kept thinking the fish were eating the food in the trap and I was just missing it, until I realized the snails would climb up on the outside, and stick their mouth bits in through the breathing holes on the trap. I think one of them extended his feeding tube like 3 inches in to the trap to get at the mysis...

I'm going to reduce the number and see if one or two snails still causes me grief
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