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04-22-2002, 04:00 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Independence, KY
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queen conch, fighting conch question
Hello all,
I stopped in to talk to my LFS guy and he was saying that he read someplace the queen conch was dangerous to the tank, plus could be dangerous to humans. He told me this after I had made a comment about giving him 2 for his home tank. Not sure what he is talking about and I have done a few searches on the internet and have found nothing. Anybody have experience with conch?
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Last edited by hooked; 04-22-2002 at 04:06 PM.
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04-22-2002, 04:10 PM
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Thread Killer
Join Date: Aug 2001
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I have two. They eat cyano n stuff. So far I am alive. I love their eyeballs, they are so cute. I guess they do get big maybe thats it.
Maybe he meant dont eat them???   
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04-22-2002, 04:13 PM
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Klingon
Join Date: Feb 2002
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I have three fighting conch, they seem harmless and do eat cyno. By the way I have a purble nudi branch and it likes cyno also. But nudi's are hard to keep, moved him into the refugium a couple of times but he keeps finding his way to the sump.
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04-22-2002, 06:09 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2001
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I have one in my tank and he is just fine. I have had probably a hundred in my belly and they sure tasted good. Apparently I am still of the living and not the undead, noneof my fish have 2 tooth marks on their neck 
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04-22-2002, 07:22 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Jan 2002
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LOL , thanks for the reply. I didn't think that sounded right but still had to look into it before I stick my hand in tank and ten minutes later my wife finds me on the ground  They seem to be cruizing the bottom cleaning things up. Hard to find the right things to put into my tank with such little space.
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04-22-2002, 07:23 PM
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read someplace the queen conch was dangerous to the tank, plus could be dangerous to humans.
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Jim, I think they just combined several different animals. Possibly got Whelks and Cones all crossed into Queen.
Queen conch and fighting conch are both fine for reef tanks.
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04-22-2002, 09:56 PM
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Plankton
Join Date: May 2000
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My LFS (who is awesome, with a wealth of info) told me that the Queen eat a lot of algae when they're young, but as they grow older, they then eat snails. I didn't ask at what age Queens became "older", but I have one is each tank, and love watching them, as they're real cool. I haven't seen any signs of them harassing my snails, but I am keeping an eye on them. Hope this helps.  |
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04-23-2002, 07:06 AM
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My LFS (who is awesome, with a wealth of info) told me that the Queen eat a lot of algae when they're young, but as they grow older, they then eat snails.
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Uh, no!
George, I think the confusion originated with this. For several years there was a collector/transhipper/wholesaler in the Florida Panhandle area that shipped out locally collected whelks, under the label "queen conch". Obviously they weren't.
Anywho, another bit of info. What's sold as "fighting conch" is actually the "West Indies" conch, Strombus pugilis not S. alatus. Pugilis is aquacultured because it gets bigger. Almost as big as queen.
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