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IcantTHINKofONE

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Posted: 25 Sep 2002 03:06�� �Post subject: Queen or Fighting Conch?

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What's the difference? Which is better?

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Posted: 25 Sep 2002 12:31�� �

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What's the difference? Which is better?

-The queen has the poetential to grow quite large and would out grow most of our tanks. The fighting only reaches about 4" and is what I would recommend. They both do the same job.

Steve

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JimM

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Joined: 18 Dec 2000

Posts: 312

Location: Fremont, California

Posted: 25 Sep 2002 17:25�� �

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Hmmmm...should I reverse my answer that I gave you on the "other" board just to confuse you?

Jim

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ChumbawambaMan

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Joined: 27 Apr 2001

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Location: Corvallis, OR

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 17:17�� �

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i dont know which conch i have, but let me tell you, ive altered my vocabulary specifically for the conch. from now on, all pieces of garbage people that i detest and loathe, i call a conch. this is due to the fact that i lost one $45 and two $25 maxima clams to one before i realized how much of a conch they really are.

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Reefguide

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Location: Miami, FL

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 17:29�� �

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Can you be a bit more specific? What exactly happened?

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ChumbawambaMan

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Location: Corvallis, OR

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 17:55�� �

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the first clam i bought looked good for about a day, then when i turned the lights on in the morning, the shell had been completely scoured clean. polished even. i believed my blue stripe legged hermit had done the deed, seeing as how he was big and not afraid to steal food from anemones and fish and was otherwise a jerk. so a year passed and i thought id try again with the clams.

so i purchased two, and they looked awesome, one had the potential of being my favorite thing in the entire world. but once again the lights turned off i went to sleep and waking up early i discovered one clam had been polished off in the same manner, and the other clam had the conch on top of it, with the its mouth parts extended deep within the clam. im nearly 99 percent sure that the clam was in perfect health at the time of his demise and that the conch was eating him, and there was nothing the immobile invertabrate could do.

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benmatson

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Joined: 20 Nov 2001

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Location: Hey, Angelo! Check out this punk.

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 19:04�� �

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rotfflmfaopimpbatfwstnca!

Conches and other similar snails (can't remember the word, on a sugar high right now) eat bivalves in the wild. (Doh!) I'm sure the conches love you for dropping filet mignon right in the tank for them. Sorry you had to learn that one through experience.

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tazdevil

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Joined: 27 Sep 2001

Posts: 814

Location: Minnesota

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 19:10�� �

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That's where the research part of reefing comes in handy.

eh benm, I understand the rotfflmfao part of the word, what's up with the rest?

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rotfflmfaopimpbatfwstnca!

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SPC

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Location: Ga

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 19:29�� �

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Conches and other similar snails (can't remember the word, on a sugar high right now) eat bivalves in the wild.

Uh, does anyone have a link showing where Strombus gigas or alatus eat calms or any meat for that matter?

Steve

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benmatson

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Joined: 20 Nov 2001

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Posted: 26 Sep 2002 19:38��

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tazdevil wrote:

eh benm, I understand the rotfflmfao part of the word, what's up with the rest?

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rotfflmfaopimpbatfwstnca!

rolling on the **** floor laughing my **** ass off peeing in my pants banging on the wall scaring the neighbor's cat away.

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galleon

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Joined: 14 Nov 2000

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Location: Sarasota, FL

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 20:03�� �

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Yeah Steve, I'd love to see a reference to that as well.

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DanConnor

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Joined: 01 Mar 2000

Posts: 2245

Location: Upstate New York

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 20:04�� �

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one had the potential of being my favorite thing in the entire world

Such a sad realm we inhabit! I'm pretty sure conchs are herbivores...sure your's is a conch? Anyway, careful with that term- people from the Keys are called Conchs!

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ANEMONEBUFF

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Joined: 09 Feb 2001

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Location: L.I.,N.Y.,USA

Posted: 26 Sep 2002 20:19�� �

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I did see an episode(blue planet?) on Discovery where a conch devoured another snail(I think a tulip snail was the prey). It wouldn't suprise me if conchs ate bivalves as well.

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