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I think ReefSparky is right, almost all marine snails have to be shipped in a way that they won't dry out. I brought back about sixty Red-Mouth...
No, you got the expelled intestines thing right, but sea cucumbers/holothurians are the ones that do that as a defensive measure rather than...
It's thought to be a species-survival instinct. When many of the slugs and nudibranchs are stressed or near death, they lay their eggs, even when...
That's an odd angle to try to use for ID on the bivalve, mainly because I can't tell how much of the pic is shell and what's just rock. However,...
Mostly about a quarter of an inch, around 6 or 7 mm. A few species grow slightly larger. However, if yours turns out to be a trochid rather than a...
Hmm, most of the small bright yellow shells that I see are bivalves. Do they look like little clams or scallops, or are they snails? If you can get...
LOL No, I didn't go to school for them. In fact, I'm not even sure you can really go to school to learn about snails, specifically. I do know most...
Nah, I don't think you spelled anything wrong. If you're talking about the cowry/cowrie argument, both spellings are generally considered correct....
Wow, NeighborTom has been studying her snails, lol. I'll be obsolete here in no time....:) It certainly could be Collonista costulosa, or one of...
Ha, here I am. Tried to see if I could find anything on Galveston Island today with the wind blowing the water out to sea, but it was too cold and...
Yeah, I often had my serpents wrap up my snails, but most of the time they were unsuccessful in killing them. Occasionally, they were successful....
They can get under the gravel substrate. I've had them in sand, gravel, and crushed coral, even some where the smaller pieces were between pea and...
Yep, that's the classic green zoanthid eater, either Heliacus variegatus or Heliacus areola. Sometimes you find an infestation of them if you find...
It's a chiton. It really isn't all that transparent, it's just the same color as your sand/gravel. It shouldn't be one of the oddballs, judging by...
Pseudocornyactis? [IMG] ShroomFAQ3
All the sea hares tend to have differing diets, so you probably need the right one. If it helps, the excrement-looking ones are Dolabrifera...
Nu2Reef got this one, I think. As for whether they are reef safe, the answer is NO, and in fact, they probably aren't even people-safe. Read this:...
Nice story. I remember when the snail was first discovered. A lot of the snail people puzzled over whether the report was real or a joke/hoax,...
Yes, and that article doesn't even mention the most intelligent of the Mollusca, the Pacific Tree Octopus: Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus...
And maybe even better, at least one of the Elysia species feeds on Bryopsis.... :)
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