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Old 11-22-2013, 03:18 AM
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So a couple months ago I decided to revitalize my 20g long frag tank. I had allowed this tank to completely go to **** and the detritus was so bad that the bottom was covered in about a 1/2". I sucked some out when I did a couple of water changes over a few weeks but it just kept coming. So, I went out and got about 20 nassarius snails. At first I didnt think they were going to do the job but in this last month with doing water changes and the persistant lil' buggers working hard I am down to a few small patches. This isnt why Im typing this up though. Today I noticed a tiny little snail on the glass in the shape of a nassarius snail. I thought they werent known to breed in captivity. Its definitely a nassarius. I dont have any other snails in there other than some trochus and this isnt in the shape of a trochu. Can anyone shed some light on this? They arent the mini ones either. They are the 1" snails.

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Old 11-22-2013, 03:30 AM
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Are you sure the LFS didn't throw a small one in the bag that you didn't notice? I bought 5 last week and all were about 1 cm long
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Old 11-22-2013, 03:34 AM
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I bought them 2 months ago and this one is about 2-3mm long. All the others are around 1".
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Old 11-22-2013, 04:37 AM
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I got a bunch in my tank and they breed all the time , I always find new baby ones.
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Old 11-22-2013, 06:06 AM
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I have started off with 4 in my tank and now I have 7 in the tank

some people have no luck with critters reproducing and others have non stop baby factories and still others it's pure dumb luck.
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