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09-26-2006, 10:37 AM
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REEFLVR
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oklahoma
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Tell me the best place
Anyone please tell me the best place to buy snails. I need some to clean my sand bed and keep it all stired up. I have to pay $2.00 a piece for them at our LFS. I need to get about 30 snails.
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150 Gal tank,sump, DIY Skimmer, LR,LS
Coral beauty, Clown fish, 3 pajama cardinals
1 b/g chromis, YWG, cleaner shrimp
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09-26-2006, 10:44 AM
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Check out Premium Aquatics and see if they are still carrying Nassarius snails, they are good for that, they burrow in the sand and eat left overs, when food hits the water they will pop out of the sand in mass like zombies in a grade B horror movie, its really kewl 
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09-26-2006, 12:40 PM
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REEFLVR
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Oklahoma
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so the last bunch of snails dug under your sand? That is what I want them to do. I think I will give them a try, I've already placed a bid.
Any other ideas let me know.
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150 Gal tank,sump, DIY Skimmer, LR,LS
Coral beauty, Clown fish, 3 pajama cardinals
1 b/g chromis, YWG, cleaner shrimp
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09-26-2006, 01:15 PM
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Rogue Water is Trouble!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upstate, NY
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Soo....do they ship these snails overnight? How can they do it free?
Did you have any dead ones? How did you know which ones? If you ordered 100 or so, they probably all smelled dead by the time they got to your house...
Just wondering...
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09-26-2006, 01:51 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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I think he just did USPS priority.......2 days.
The guy I ordered em from wouldalways add extras in case of loss.
So I think I orderd 100 and he may have shipped 110. How many survived??? I really didn't botehr to waste my time tocount. At $20 shipped how can you go wrong if you only get 80 iut of 100?
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09-26-2006, 01:54 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Booboo33062
so the last bunch of snails dug under your sand? That is what I want them to do. I think I will give them a try, I've already placed a bid.
Any other ideas let me know.
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Yes that is too why I bought them. I just wanted something to burrow and mix up substrate. They usually would burrow during the day and when they smelled food out they'd pop! 
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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09-26-2006, 01:57 PM
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Rogue Water is Trouble!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upstate, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 110galreef
I think he just did USPS priority.......2 days.
The guy I ordered em from wouldalways add extras in case of loss.
So I think I orderd 100 and he may have shipped 110. How many survived??? I really didn't botehr to waste my time tocount. At $20 shipped how can you go wrong if you only get 80 iut of 100?
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110...
I am not really worried about the number I get alive as much as I am worried about putting dead snails in the tank. Did you just dump the lot in and whatever was alive was alive?
Thanks,
Frank
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09-26-2006, 02:07 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by frankandmaura
110...
I am not really worried about the number I get alive as much as I am worried about putting dead snails in the tank. Did you just dump the lot in and whatever was alive was alive?
Thanks,
Frank
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I acclimated them and dumped them all in........snails may act dead for awhile from shock....so they say.
I wasn't to worried about a few dead ones, as I figured they'd just make food for my cleaners and new homes for whatever crab may want it! 
These are little and a few dead ones shouldn't affect your tank unless it is a very small tank.....but you won't be buying 100 snails for 10 gallon tank.
So either way a few dead ones and you should be fine.
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
Last edited by 110galreef; 09-26-2006 at 02:36 PM.
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09-26-2006, 02:22 PM
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Rogue Water is Trouble!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upstate, NY
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Yea, thanks! It is a 125 gal...
This seems like a great deal, I am going to go for it.
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