Conch questions?

[Michelle Leonard]

Anyone know if my queen Conch is eating my snails? It seems to always be
sucking on a snail shell, but can't tell if it's just cleaning up the
empties or not.

[kim gross]

Michelle Leonard wrote:
> Anyone know if my queen Conch is eating my snails? It seems to always be
> sucking on a snail shell, but can't tell if it's just cleaning up the
> empties or not.
>
>
A Queen Conch will not eat a live snail.

Kim

[JustPhish0911]

>From: "Michelle Leonard"
>Date: 10/15/2003 7:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time
>Message-id: >
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>Anyone know if my queen Conch is eating my snails? It seems to always be
>sucking on a snail shell, but can't tell if it's just cleaning up the
>empties or not.
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Your conch is probably a predatory whelk and is in fact eating the snails.
Queens and fightings are afaik algae eaters and wouldn't be "cleaning up" the
remains of a snail in a snail shell.

HTH
Thanks,
JP
www.justphish.com

[Marc Levenson]

JustPhish0911 wrote:

> Your conch is probably a predatory whelk and is in fact eating the snails.
> Queens and fightings are afaik algae eaters and wouldn't be "cleaning up" the
> remains of a snail in a snail shell.
>
> HTH
> Thanks,
> JP
> www.justphish.com

If it is a whelk, this is what one looks like:

http://melevsreef.com/id/whelk.html

Marc


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