I have about 20 of them in my 40gl and they really do a good job of keeping the sand clean and moving.. Anyone else use them?
-
Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
Onyx Nassarius Snails
- Thread starter The_Codfather
- Start date
Hey Bob.. I think I have 2 or three of them when i picked them up from the bay the same time i caught the Onyx .. My neighbor has a local 180gl tank and has 100's of them.. he was the one who told me about them when i first started the hobby.. hey the price was right at the time ;DBobnKate said:
I could be totally wrong because I don’t know much, but I also thought that Nassarius were warm water snails. I’m assuming your catch was local...NJ waters. I never knew we had Nassarius here. Are you sure they are not Whelks. The difference is that the Nassarius will bury itself in the sand with its elephant trunk sticking out of the sand while the Whelk will stay above the sand. Similar look, but different….also the Nassarius will drag and expose its foot as it travels.
By the way, love them. Great sand sifters and voracious eaters of detritus. Amazing when you feed they can “smell” the food hitting the water and up out of the sand they come with their elephant trunks wagging all over the place.
By the way, love them. Great sand sifters and voracious eaters of detritus. Amazing when you feed they can “smell” the food hitting the water and up out of the sand they come with their elephant trunks wagging all over the place.
Im sure These are Onyx Nassarius Snails (Mud snails) I caught them in great bay and they all bury.. In fact you can see a few in the sand against the glass and as you said... :Great sand sifters and voracious eaters of detritus"redfishbluefish said:
Te salut, Codfather.
I guess I’ll have to go do some local collection for snails. Thanks for the info.
I guess I’ll have to go do some local collection for snails. Thanks for the info.
Your welcome.. We have a real small inlet where I live and that's where I found them in abundance but remember i got them in the summer.. I don't know if they are still out but it worth a trip to the shoreredfishbluefish said:
No such thing as an 'onyx" nassarius snail. What you have (more than likely) is the snails being sold on ebay - nassarius obseleta.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-11/mg/index.php
In a nutshell - if that is what you have - they are not reef safe and are also possible parasite carriers.
http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-11/mg/index.php
In a nutshell - if that is what you have - they are not reef safe and are also possible parasite carriers.
A very informative read and thank you!..They seem to be the same ones I have but I got mine from Great Bay.. I have had them in my tank since mid july of this year and so far everything seems to be ok.. They seem to like to be in the sand at day and all over the glass at night.. never seen them go after the few corals i do have ..I got the "onyx" nassarius snail" name from a online vendor before I put them in my tank and when i was trying to ID them http://www.bluezooaquatics.com/productDetail.asp?cid=82&pid=1141&did=2Hawkeye said:
Onyx - fake name - made first for the clownfish
Nassarius - true latin name for the Nassarius Vibex snail.
You have the Ilyanassa Obsoleta which blue zoo at least has the guts to admit that.
The false advertising is kinda sad - goes to show you can't trust anything from a retailer. Even one that is supposedly good.
Nassarius - true latin name for the Nassarius Vibex snail.
You have the Ilyanassa Obsoleta which blue zoo at least has the guts to admit that.
The false advertising is kinda sad - goes to show you can't trust anything from a retailer. Even one that is supposedly good.
I guess people will do anything to make a buck.. but i got these for free and again they do a really good job of keeping the sand clean and moving. When im ready to finish my hardscaping and add more corals i might take them out after reading that
eh...if it works for you - go for it. I also read those articles sometimes with a grain of salt - because one person's way is not necessarily the right way for everyone else. The parasite thing is freaky though. By now you'd probably have noticed it if there was an issue. Anyways - if you go hunting for more - maybe best to quarantine to make sure you don't mess with the ones that die quickly.
Really! I don't feel like getting "swimmers' itch" now or anytime ;DHawkeye said: