Think I had turbo snails breeding

stingythingy45 · 10/19/2007, 07:46 AM

I know this sounds kind of off the wall.But last night I picked up two pretty big turbo snails to clean around the tank.After acclimating them(drip) for a little over an hour I put them in.
My water is running around 80 deg. as it was a little warm and the AC is put away.It was late and I put them in under actinic light.Well, about an hour later I noticed on snail on the other snails shell.Like great,they're going to clean each other I thought.Then I seen what appeared to be a puff of smoke.
Then more smoke puffing from under the shell on the on top one.
This continued til I went to bed and after the actinics went out.
The CBS even went over to investigate.Did they like my tank that much?

papagimp · 10/19/2007, 08:14 AM

80 isn't bad at all. no worries there.

Definatly sounds like spawning to me, my stometella's "smoke" all the time. Definatly not uncommon. At any given time I can look in my tank and see loads of Cerith snail eggs, nerite eggs, stometella's doing their thing, and a few mystery eggs every once in awhile, figured they were one of the many snails so who knows

stingythingy45 · 10/19/2007, 10:26 AM

Cool,
I was just a little baffled because turbo's(quote)aren't suppose to do that(unquote).
Well,there's plenty of food for them if they want to multiply.lol

Davidb6 · 10/19/2007, 10:35 AM

I have lots of baby turbo's in my tank and refug.

Mavrk · 10/19/2007, 10:41 AM

My trochus smoke all the time. It is a chain reaction. One starts and they all start going. Up until the other night I figured my skimmer had gotten it all. I looked in my sump and saw about a dozen tiny snails. They seem to like my skimmer section.

papagimp · 10/19/2007, 11:52 AM

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Originally posted by stingythingy45

Well,there's plenty of food for them if they want to multiply.lol

Having them spawn and having them grow to any noticalbe size is two different matters altogether. Alot of the "baby snails" will end up as food for something else. Granted there's plenty to take into consideration, livestock, corals, stuff like that, but still. A refugium always helps. I pick out the large stometella's out of my fuge and let the babies grow up in there. Getting a nice little collection of various colors going in the tank, blue, black, white, spotted, ect.ect.

10/19/2007, 07:46 AM	#1
stingythingy45 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: MA Posts: 3,296	Think I had turbo snails breeding I know this sounds kind of off the wall.But last night I picked up two pretty big turbo snails to clean around the tank.After acclimating them(drip) for a little over an hour I put them in. My water is running around 80 deg. as it was a little warm and the AC is put away.It was late and I put them in under actinic light.Well, about an hour later I noticed on snail on the other snails shell.Like great,they're going to clean each other I thought.Then I seen what appeared to be a puff of smoke. Then more smoke puffing from under the shell on the on top one. This continued til I went to bed and after the actinics went out. The CBS even went over to investigate.Did they like my tank that much?

10/19/2007, 08:14 AM	#2
papagimp COMAS Rocks! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, OK Posts: 8,185 Blog Entries: 2	80 isn't bad at all. no worries there. Definatly sounds like spawning to me, my stometella's "smoke" all the time. Definatly not uncommon. At any given time I can look in my tank and see loads of Cerith snail eggs, nerite eggs, stometella's doing their thing, and a few mystery eggs every once in awhile, figured they were one of the many snails so who knows __________________ 58g Softie & 75g Stoney Member, Central Oklahoma Marine Aquarium Society Current Tank Info: 58g Mixed Reef Project - Started June 2011

10/19/2007, 10:26 AM	#3
stingythingy45 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: MA Posts: 3,296	Cool, I was just a little baffled because turbo's(quote)aren't suppose to do that(unquote). Well,there's plenty of food for them if they want to multiply.lol __________________ Bob Current Tank Info: 90 gallon,mixed Reef,2-250 watt Optix 3 pendants(Phoenix 14K)2-54 watt T5 Super actnics ,ASM G-2 Gate/recirc mods,70 gal. basement sump,20L ref

10/19/2007, 10:35 AM	#4
Davidb6 Registered Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Savanah Ga Posts: 770	I have lots of baby turbo's in my tank and refug.

10/19/2007, 10:41 AM	#5
Mavrk Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: California - South Bay Area Posts: 2,775	My trochus smoke all the time. It is a chain reaction. One starts and they all start going. Up until the other night I figured my skimmer had gotten it all. I looked in my sump and saw about a dozen tiny snails. They seem to like my skimmer section.