davelin315 January 6, 2008 Share January 6, 2008 I bought some nassarius snails from Dr. Mac and some of them are not nassarius. When I e-mailed them they said that they are probably safe to put in based on their observations, but I'm not willing to stick them in there without finding out what they are first. Anyone know of any sites out there that take a step by step approach to identification (something like spiral shell or not, go to this # question, etc)? I haven't found anything on them, although the peppermint snail on Mark Levenson's site is similar. I'll try and post some pictures as well if anyone can ID them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gastone January 6, 2008 Share January 6, 2008 Try Dr. Ron's forum over at MarineDepot, or you can try LeslieH at RC http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay...amp;forumid=427 Garrett. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBR January 6, 2008 Share January 6, 2008 Seems to be a hot topic this week. Here's a thread on CMAS about nassarius vs. welk: http://cmas-md.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58116 Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treesprite January 6, 2008 Share January 6, 2008 I don't know, but if they gave you the wrong thing they should take them back either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoutlaw January 6, 2008 Share January 6, 2008 Dave, I did one of those "1 million snails for $5" buys off of e-bay. They said they were nassarius snails but they turned out to be Ilyanassa obsoleta. I was told to get them out of my tank pronto as they would eventually start taking out my other snails. I would not put them in the tank until you're sure what they are. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davelin315 January 6, 2008 Author Share January 6, 2008 They have been separated already from the tank but are in the sump. My logic was that if they were disease carrying, everything that I got from Dr. Mac already had it since they are in their system, at least the snails did. I don't trust them to run wild, though, and won't, until I verify what they are. This will probably mean breaking out the digital microscope and taking some pictures, but I'm doing a million different things and haven't gotten around to doing it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoutlaw January 7, 2008 Share January 7, 2008 Dave, Here are the ads on e-bay that show the type snails I got: http://cgi.ebay.com/200-Reef-Coral-Algae-E...1QQcmdZViewItem http://cgi.ebay.com/400-Reef-Snails-and-Se...1QQcmdZViewItem Maybe the pics will help you out. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmubeach January 8, 2008 Share January 8, 2008 Anyway I hope I don't have the bad kind mine look like narsius, but they are getting big like really big white with white shells anyway I don't know if I should take them out soon. Don't want them to eat my fish! Anyway they are about the size of quaters based on shell and half doller based on foot? Anyone know excatly how big these guys get or any other parameters they defenlty keep the sand bed clean though... lawn mower sharks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancer99 January 8, 2008 Share January 8, 2008 gmu (apologies for hijacking your thread, dave), I got some Tonga Nassarius from Blue Zoo Aquatics, and they are exactly the same shape/size/color as regular Nassarius, just 2 or 3 times bigger....like 1" shells. They seem to behave exactly as the smaller Nassarius...they move fast, but fish move more quickly, so probably not a problem! -R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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