KurtG wrote:
Pszemol wrote:

"Tristan" wrote in message
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Turbo have a big problem righting themselves if they get knocked over
ontheir backs. Astra a dn cerith and nassarius and also the mexican
margaritta all do good at righting themselves.


It seems that one or more of my hermits have learned this as well. They
will go after the turbo and then leave it on the sand bottom up. I
think I'll remove my larger ones from the reef tank. They are just a pain.

I did have a conch sighting and I found the shell for another. I have
no idea on the last one. It may be burrowed into the sand somewhere.



One thought on why you lost the conch - acclimation, water paramters...

I found this on the "blue zoo aquatics" web page in relatio to conchs:

"This animal requires a long, slow drip acclimation period of no less
than 2-1/2 hours in order to properly adjust to the parameters in your
new aquarium. It requires the aquarium to maintain a salinity of 1.025 ppm."

For some of us (not me) 1.025 would be on the high side (I keep mine at
1.026'ish) And 2.5 hours is cartainly longer than a typical drip
acclimation. (you definitely can't just "bag float" these!)

Dunno if any of the above applies in your case, but figured I'd share it
in case any of it did.