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rstruhs 
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Posted: February 14 2004 at 12:17am |
Does anyone have any Abalone snails in their tank? I am wondering if they look as good in person as they do on the internet, and what would be the downside of a few of them?
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Rodney, Sandra, Jeffery, and Laura Struhs
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Jake Pehrson
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Posted: February 14 2004 at 6:31pm |
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They look good in the tank, but you will hardly ever see them.
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Posted: February 14 2004 at 9:25pm |
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Thanks Jake!
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Rodney, Sandra, Jeffery, and Laura Struhs
South Jordan, Utah 98th South & 40th West.
(801) 282-2744
75 gallon reef
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55 gallon FOWLR
20 gallon FOWLR
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Posted: February 19 2004 at 7:12pm |
I took some grey abilone from a local dive site before and decided to watch there behavors(instead of eating them, like I would normally do) they get onto a rock and absolutely pulverise all forms of algea....including coralline....they seem to have razor like adaptation for scraping their favorite food from the rock.....very fast and effiecant, but will die off quickly if their soure of food runs low.....being in Japan, I have an abundance of nori available and I will place that as food...it's amazing what this culture will eat 
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Tiny bubbles in my head
:) what was the count again....1, 2, 8, 3
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Posted: February 19 2004 at 7:35pm |
Will abalone scratch acrylic like chitons will?
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Posted: February 19 2004 at 9:40pm |
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I have never had a problem with them scratching acrylic, but I'm not 100% positive that they won't.
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Posted: February 19 2004 at 10:44pm |
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Jake - do you know of anywhere local to pick up an abalone and cowrie?
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Posted: February 19 2004 at 10:47pm |
Nope, sorry. I really don't visit a lot of local pet stores on a regular basis.
I am sure you can find some locally. If not have a local pet store order you one in their next shipment.
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Posted: February 20 2004 at 12:06am |
you could always try http://www.marinedepotlive.com/inverts-shell--snails.html I have always shopped with them.....even in Japan...I get great business with them for non perishables, and not to mention a reasonable price, somemay disagree because of great LFS, really wish I had a good LFS here.
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Tiny bubbles in my head
:) what was the count again....1, 2, 8, 3
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