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10-18-2003, 11:39 AM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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i hate........
snails....
they are like detroit desiel powered bulldozers in my tank. they knock over my corals. even the small rocks that are secured in place by larger rocks, they knock them out of place. i'm temped to get a triggerfish in retaliation.
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10-18-2003, 11:45 AM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
Posts: 5,815
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Yeah snails can be a pain especially those large turbo snails! That is why I have begun to clue down corals, etc. now!  |
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10-18-2003, 11:53 AM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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I love the snails! There my shock troopers against that evil little dude called algae! When the algae's troops grow to large though they can't fight, those cowards! Many of them have 2-3" strands growing on them. The poor bugers! 
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10-18-2003, 07:51 PM
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Master of Perplexity
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: panama city beach FL
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If you really want to hate something get a cowry or carrier urchin. They will bulldoze almost anything over, glued or not. Or get a blue damsel, who pulled the pocillipora frag I had glued to a rock and threw it frag down in the sand. Or a tomato clown who could pick up things larger than himself. I learned to really love super glue gel so I wouldn't have to hate so many other things! |
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10-18-2003, 08:26 PM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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What about fighting conchs. I heard they are awsome at keeping the sand clean. How big do they get? DO they bulldoze stuff?
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Austin
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
He who fears the thorn, should never crave the rose.
-favorite TRT quote
Forecast for tonight: dark, continued dark overnight, widely scattered light by morning
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10-19-2003, 06:51 AM
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Got Fish? HUH? DO YA??
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Australia
Posts: 491
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Better than having algae or hermits that nip or eat your fish!!
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10-19-2003, 07:05 AM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
Posts: 18,599
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The only thing my snails do or clean is this glass  Im sick of looking at 100 butts on the glass
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10-19-2003, 08:10 AM
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shark bait
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: south of the north pole
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they eat more sea veggies hanging from a food clip than my fish do. i had a food clip hanging on a string in the middle of my tank, and they would climb up and over the glass, down the string to the food clip, then munch away while swinging around like spiderman. i kept hearing a clicking sound against the glass, but everytime i turned around to check out what it was, the current in my tank would whip the food clip around to the otherside obscuring the snail, so i was clueless for few days, thinking i had a mantis loose in my tank 
anyhow the only thing they continually go out of their way to knock over are few zoathid colonies, and few of my lps corals.
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Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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10-19-2003, 09:05 AM
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Blacktip Shark
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleburg, VA
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Mine are kinda stupid. They sometimes get stuck upside down and can't right themselves. BUt I don't intervene, I let evoulution takes it place, usually they right themselves in a few days, the dumies!!!
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want
He who fears the thorn, should never crave the rose.
-favorite TRT quote
Forecast for tonight: dark, continued dark overnight, widely scattered light by morning
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10-19-2003, 09:16 AM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
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Don't be so hard on snails folks, they are a heck of alot better than hermits!! |
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10-19-2003, 10:16 AM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Quote:
Originally posted by MontanaRocknReefer
Don't be so hard on snails folks, they are a heck of alot better than hermits!!
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Bull they stink 
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10-19-2003, 10:40 AM
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TRT Staff The Mominator
Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Just South Of Seattle
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You been sniffing dead turbos again, Casey?
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10-19-2003, 11:30 AM
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Eat more PIE
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Florida Panhandle
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Quote:
Originally posted by Alice
You been sniffing dead turbos again, Casey?
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10-19-2003, 11:37 AM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Montana
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Well we could bring Jay in on this one!! Well maybe not!! |
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10-19-2003, 09:29 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Martinez, CA
Posts: 568
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you can always send me your snails....i trade you some hermit crabs 
bill
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