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Super Tongan Nassarius snail
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The Super Nassarius Snail from Tonga combines unique beauty with unparalleled scavenging abilities. Its oval, spiral shell is often said to resemble an olive pit, but it is much more ornate and elegant in its beauty. The most striking physical characteristic, however, is the long, tube-like siphon that protrudes from one end of the shell. This siphon is used to...
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The best snail to have in my opinion
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This snail is easy to care for and the only extra care that is needed is a little extra food being placed on the bottom of the substrate if needed for feeding. This snail is non-agressive, grows slowly and I have known some people who have had them reproduce. I would not place them with emerald crabs, or hermits, the snails turn into a preferred food source for the crabs.
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They stir the sand bed. The snails are fun to watch as they burst through the sand for food when the tank is being fed. They really help to keep extra food in the tank to a minimum.
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I wish they would be a little faster to evade the crabs. I have lost many to hungry crabs.
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Great snail for your sand bed.
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I have a few of these and they are awesome! I would completely recommend them. They aren't digressive at all. They are CRAZY fast when they are after food. They are carnivorous but only toward things that are dead or very close to it.
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Amazing to watch (once saw mine get in a fight with a hermit over some food, this thing freaking LAUNCHED the hermit nearly across the tank. The hermit never messed with it again.) Great at cleaning up the tank. Great at keeping your sandbed stirred as they spend most of their time burried if they aren't actively eating.
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Two things, they are so cool looking I wish you got to see them more since they spend alot of time in the sand. Second thing is that when something is dead, they get right on eating it up. Why is that bad? Well, when you have a fish that dies the day after it was shipped to you and you get home from work to find it almost completely eaten, it makes it alot harder to file a DAA claim with the place you ordered it.
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5.0 |
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Fantastic must-have snail 
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This snail is the only carnivore i know of...it is excellent at getting the scraps from a meaty feeding to your fish cleaned up quick...also will devour and fish that is near death on the bottom of the tank. i had a new goby that died within a week of adding it to my tank...I have about a dozen of theses in my 55g and they completely consumed (bones included) the 2.5" fish within 1 hour. these guys stay under the sand bed until they sense food then they all pop up like a surfacing submarine. this is very entertaining for visitors to my house to watch during feeding time.
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excellent cleaner, shell make great homes for hermit crabs after they die, keep the sand bend stirred up
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no complaints
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5.0 |
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These guys are cool
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They stay buried until some kind of food source hits the water. Then like some kind of zombie they come up search out a meal then they bury themselves again. They also aide in keeping the sand bed stirred. They are an important part of the CUC.
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very interesting snail
stir the sand bed
great scavenger
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They will need to be fed meaty bits of seafood
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4.0 |
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4.0 |
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4.0 |
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Thoughts on Super Tongan Nassarius snails
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Great little snail due to its talents(nature). This snail does'nt sit in the common conception of a snail due to it is a carnivore. But not in the nature that it will hunt down you livestock to eat it. They scavenge for meaty items and dying meaty items(etc dying fish snail, crab). When they are not eating they usually burrow in the sand. Resulting they will disturb the sand bed for you.
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Will shift the sand. Eats left over fish food.
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These snails have a nature to slide up the glass than fall down(they don;t die from this).
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5.0 |
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5.0 |
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5.0 |
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