Just had to brag, the honeyhole was good to me today

thats cool man ! ITS NICE WHEN YOU CAN GET A "FREEBIE" from time to time lol

I dunno.. but how much are you willing to ship a bag full of them to me for

ha ha, well my trade license is only about $30 a year.

Everything I read searching for that snail shows it being a freshwater snail. Have you had a lot of success with them in your tank?

Free is always nice!

crvz said:

Everything I read searching for that snail shows it being a freshwater snail. Have you had a lot of success with them in your tank?

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I get them on brackish tidal zones that can swing from full fresh to full salt. The water I pulled them out of yesterday was about <5 ppt saline, due mostly to heavy rains and low tide. after about 5 hours of salinity acclimation to 27ppt, I can plop them right into my tank (36ppt). I had 100% survival last night, which is wonderful!

They are gentle and industrious, I've had great success with them. Unfortunately they don't seem to reproduce very well in my tank, but the current population should be able to sustain itself now with the few eggs that hatch.

the Neritina genus is huge, pretty much all the brown nerites are called "Olive Nerites" even though they are different species. I'm 99% sure mine are Vitta Usnea, even though they are not thought to be this far west.

These particular snails max out at about 3/4" and are much more rounded. When raised in my tank their shells are a beautiful golden brown with black zig-zagging stripes. When I pull them from the bay, they look like beat up goat turds.

I currently have some in my tank.. They are pretty distinguishable from other snails. If you look at the end of their shell they have a white spot. Anway, here is a little info on them.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/sept2003/invert.htm

I need to pick up some for my 135

i'll go look and see if i can find a 'real' name for mine.... the reason i got these big guys is cause Todd eats anything smaller. if i say i have these snails and people think i mean those cute teeny ones, they'll think i'm a liar :lol:

Here's a nice nerite ref. page

http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/Family_NERITIDAE_NERITINAE_NERITINI.html

this appears to be mine:
https://store.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1618420/

icebear said:

this appears to be mine:
https://store.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1618420/

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That's a burrowing predatory snail, not in Nerite family, still very very cool. I have 5 in my tank and I love feeding them.

Neuticle said:

That's a burrowing predatory snail, not in Nerite family, still very very cool. I have 5 in my tank and I love feeding them.

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yep, not a nerite at all :rotflmao:

they are cool snails, we call them "the army of darkness" because of the way they explode from the sand when food is dropped in

i'd like to get more sometime, but i don't see any for sale anyplace.

piece-of-the-reef has them, if I get my commercial license I can sell them too

That is really cool. I wish I had a place I could go and collect my own cleaners like that from.