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Posted: January 18 2006 at 3:49am |
I know this is a crazy question but i'm only asking it as I couldn't find any information about it online, I purchased some liverock from a tank that was being torn down at a business due to it flooding they're waiting room and the rock contained a few good sized conch-like snails on it, and oddly enough the person getting the rock for me told me they sting so I should kill them off. I have the snails quarantined in a cup currently until I figure out if there even is a snail that stings or if these sting, it may be a really dumb question for me to ask so I apologise if it is, can anyone shed some light on this for me? I vaugly recall the person mentioning the name strombus snail also. 
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 9:14am |
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Have you searched that name on the www? Were there any other snails in the tank? There are some like you described, that eat other snails and they even spear fish. If in question, give them to someone else or throw them out.
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 10:47am |
 heres what they look like if that helps, I'd just hate to kill them if they turn out to be harmless.
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 11:03am |
From those pics they look like tongan fighting conch.
I have one and they are quite cool. Keep them or I'll take them from you if you don't want them. 
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 11:45am |
It is not a conch, but most likely a Nassarius sp.
They are good. I would not remove them.
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 7:42pm |
For me, it would depend on whether that person you bought the tank from actually saw them eating other snails or fish. If not then from the pic, I agree with Jake. Nassarius are great scavengers.
I did have one of those bad boys once. I actually saw it eat two snails. The good thing was, it only ate about once a week.
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Posted: January 18 2006 at 9:58pm |
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These snails do come out with a body shaped like a nassarius but very colorfull compared to the white nas's I've seen in other tanks, these have a leopard spotted body with white antennas, the siphon tube is also white leopard spotted with a white tip, right now they are happily roaming around my nano tank. I put them in there to watch and see what they do since it's a small tank and I can easily pull them out if they become a problem, I do like the colors though, they're bodies even seem to have a bit of blue to them also.
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Posted: January 20 2006 at 9:00pm |
These snails eat other snails!  they ate most of the snails in my seahorse tank while I was gone today, I came back and saw them muching on another one of them, looks like it's going to be execution for these snails or if anyone wants some free snail eating snails they're yours lol.
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Posted: January 21 2006 at 12:14pm |
Those are predatory whelks not nasarrius snails. THey will reprodue very fast and try to kill other snails and clams in your tank. I got some on my tank as hitchhikers on sone florida rock. They seem to have the most accute sense of smell of anything Ive seen in the tank, usually the first ones to show up on anything dead. The most humane way to kill them is to put them in the freezer for a few minutes. Here is an article on how to tell the diff. http://www.melevsreef.com/id/whats_a_whelk.html
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Posted: January 21 2006 at 3:00pm |
Thanks Asad.  (and Marc Elev...)
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Posted: January 21 2006 at 3:10pm |
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(and Marc Elev...) |
I've never heard anyone call him that. From now on I'm going to.
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Posted: January 23 2006 at 9:49am |
My fault for giving the little guys a chance, the least they could've done was wait a day or so before going on a spree of snail killing mayhem. 
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