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Tropical Fish Keeping => Invertebrates - Shrimps and Snails => Topic started by: TopCookie on March 17, 2018, 10:19:39 PM
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Anybody have any experience with the Faunus group of snails...?
(https://www.pro-shrimp.co.uk/3807-large_default/cappuccino-faunus-snail.jpg)
(https://www.pro-shrimp.co.uk/3802-large_default/black-devil-lava-snail-faunus-arta.jpg)
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I've never kept those but they are lovely looking snails.
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They are lovely - I keep eyeing up the cappuccino one on the website you've got the pics from. Unfortunately, I only have experience of keeping one nerite snail, so unfortunately I can't help.
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No experience with these snails..sorry.
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That "Cappuccino" one is a real beauty, eh... :) There's surprisingly little information about these snails out there but I do believe they are egg layers... That's the main thing which puts me off Nerite snails and so makes me cautious about getting one of these just in case they sesame seed the gaff...!!! They're supposed to be fantastic as clean up crew members though and are on the large side, so just a single one could be a fantastic addition, potentially - and they do look wikkid... :D
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I had a quick look on Planet Inverts which is a good website specialising in invertebrates - it looks as though these seem to be the tylomelania snails http://www.planetinverts.com/sulawesi_snails.html, so you might have better luck googling for snails with that name to get further info, if you haven't already. There's quite a lot of info on German websites too (eg https://www.garnelen-tom.de/zwerggarnelen-shop/Cappuccino-Turmdeckelschnecke-Faunus-sp and https://www.garnelio.de/cappuccinoschnecke-faunus-sp.) - happy to translate if you're unfamiliar with German (and it'll help dust off my extremely rusty language skills which never actually covered such a specialist topic area).
Edited to add: just found this thread on a plant forum - https://www.ukaps.org/forum/threads/could-you-recommend-me-a-snail-requirements-in-thread-text.35736/
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They look a lot like the Sulawesi (Rabbit) snails, eh... Look more closely though and you'll see the ridges on the Sulawesi snail shells whereas the Faunus snails are close to smooth... Overall shape and sizes are similar to be fair, but they are a different species to the best of my knowledge...
What is interesting is that they are definitely popular in Germany, eh... I find it a little odd that they're distinctly not popular or commonly kept here in the UK... :o
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I'm about to find out more about the Cappuccino Faunus, as I've just ordered one... ;D As daft as it sounds, I'm really excited about this... :D
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This isn't him - hasn't arrived yet - just excited to pop a photo of a Cappuccino up... :)
(http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/15/16/31/15/img_7510.jpg)
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Lovely colouring. :)
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They are nice, eh Donna... :)
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One juvenile (about 15mm to 18mm) Cappuccino has gone in the tank today... :D Being a mere pup, he's not as magnificently coloured as the big 'un in the photo, but I'm sure he'll get there soon enough... But for now, he has joined the ranks of The Cookie Clean Up Crew ;D
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Congratulations on your new arrival. I hope that he settles in with the rest of the crew in his new home. :)
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Depending on how well he settles, I could easily be tempted by another one so he/she has a buddy... :)
At the moment though, he's climbed up on the front glass a little and just perched himself there for now... Hopefully, once he settles a little more, he'll be bombing around merrily munching away etc... :)
(https://imagez.to/i/M8HDe9xm.jpg)
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He looks lovely. I can see some of the tetras keeping a watchful eye on the new inhabitant (or maybe just on you taking the pic). Don't be perturbed if he sleeps for days at a time; although I'm not at all familiar with the habits of non-nerites, my nerite spent about 8 months of being out and about for a day or two followed by up to five days disappearing (hugged to the far side of the filter or probably under the substrate) although that seems to have changed in the past month or two when he's been out daily and being very active.
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Off topic, sorry. But @TopCookie , what is the plant on the right-hand "third" line that has large heart shaped leaves? It looks like a green version of my Nymphaea Lotus.
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@Helen
Here ya go: http://tropica.com/en/plants/plantdetails/Nymphoideshydrophylla'Taiwan'(041BTC)/4463
:)
It's a favourite snack for the Amano shrimp at times... They don't all munch on it and those that do don't do so all the time, but the little blighters will eat the leaves...!!!
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I should add to that, that I have four Corydoras Ornatus and there's something about the roots of that plant which appeals to those boys too, as they're often grubbing around in the substrate where the stems go through... I suspect it must be all manner of micro-critters and that the Corys are eating them... However, they don't appear to damage the plant itself... :)
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@fcmf
He's moved off now and is pottering around - but slowly... When introducing Rabbit snails, they always seem to embark on missions immediately, where as this Cappuccino seems to be taking his time adjusting to his new surroundings... Hope the little soldier is gonna be ok...
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Well, the Cappuccino Faunus seems to have settled in nicely now and is pottering around more like you'd expect... Really pleased with him... :)
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Great to hear that he is making himself comfortable in your tank. :)
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I'll report back on him when he's been in the tank a bit longer... For the record, he's been dubbed: the "Cornetto Snail"... lolol, not by me, but I kinda like that handle... :D
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I like it too. ;D
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Well, the Cappuccino Faunus seems to have settled in nicely now and is pottering around more like you'd expect... Really pleased with him... :)
:cheers:
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Here he is, on a mission, algae munching on the rear glass... :D
(https://imagez.to/i/rSsgKdia.jpg)
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Good to see him settled in. :)
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I couldn't resist it and have today ordered a buddy for him... ::)
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Your "Cornetto" is getting a buddy :cheers:
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I won't be able to sing the song after that... "Just one Cornetto..." 8)
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Ok well maybe you should "give it to me" instead...
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lolol Matt... :rotfl:
Cornetto #2 is in the house...!!! ;D
Just acclimating him a little and then he can join Cornetto #1 for an invertebrate party... ::)
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Think I've also spotted a second baby Black Spotted Rabbit snail today... My largest of the Rabbit snails is a BSP and she arrived with child, unbeknown to me at the time... A couple of weeks after adding her, she "gave birth" to one young 'un and I discovered that the females can carry sperm and store it etc... Now she has had a second wee bairn... Lolol... free Rabbit snails deffo works for me... :D
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Looking forward to seeing pics of Cornetto #2 (and the baby rabbit snails).
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The baby Rabbit snails are so cute... like perfect miniatures of the adults, but really diddy... When I initially saw the first baby, I wasn't sure if it might be a hitch-hiking pest snail and consequently took him out of the tank but popped him in a fish bag with some tank water... Took a while, but after some searching on the web and popping a photo on another forum I was told that it wasn't an MTS or Assassin baby plus eventually got to see some photos of baby Rabbit snails, and so a few days later, back in the tank it went... :)
There's quite conflicting information about Rabbit snail breeding habits... Most on-line info tells you they have one offspring at a time, which is true, but that they are usually several months apart... Asking about them at my LFS, they told me they can reproduce a bit faster, maybe one offspring per month... Either way, they don't/won't get out of control in the way most snails do and I figure that even if I do get another baby at one monthly intervals, I should be able to take some to the LFS... Great snails though, and fun to watch pottering around...
Starting to like the Cornetto snails just as much too... :)
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The two "Cornetto" snails... ;D (Faunus Cappuccino)
(https://imagez.to/i/n0wZjx7r.jpg)
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I don't know why but I have got it stuck in my head that they are cappuccino snails... sort of fits actually!
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They are Cappuccino snails Matt... the "Cornetto" moniker is a somewhat cheeky tongue-in-cheek unofficial nickname... ;)
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Glad you got your faunus snails when you did, @TopCookie, because I see that they're no longer sold - only nerites these days.
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Ditto that @fcmf :)
I dunno why they've stopped listing them but it is a great pity... I'd happily have more of them... Hopefully they will reappear at some point down the line... Oddly, Pro Shrimp no longer offer the Rabbit snails either...
I would happily add more of the Red Nerites (Vittina Waigiensis), but boy you have to be quick when they come in stock as they sell out very swiftly...!!!
Edit: Wharf have the "Batman" Nerites, very similar to the Black Helmet Nerites, but a slightly different shell shape... Could be tempted by one of those boys in the future...
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I would happily add more of the Red Nerites (Vittina Waigiensis), but boy you have to be quick when they come in stock as they sell out very swiftly...!!!
Ahem - hope you've read my tip-off PM from yesterday (or maybe you've not logged in to see). Get moving now if you want more!!! I've one en route myself. ;D
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@fcmf
It's done...!!! Thank you for the heads up fcmf... Two more Red Nerites en route to Cookie Towers as we speak...!!! ;D Genuinely pretty ornamental snails, for sure...!!!
PS: Yes, I was away from home for a couple of days... Was, sadly, at the funeral of my best man from my original wedding, many moons ago... :'(
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Postie has delivered... :D Pro-Shrimp sent me three Red Nerites, instead of two... Very happy bunny now...!!! One in particular is a real beauty... the other two are fairly dark but still gorgeous... all three are fairly small'ish :D
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Excellent news, @TopCookie - maybe your real beauty one is the same as / similar to my little one. (We should compare pics, although the quality of mine at the mo are bad as it's so bright outside and I keep getting reflections of myself.)
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I lost another snail last week, the red with black markings that I bought in December 2014. So I'm on the lookout for more and since I got most of mine from the MA that no longer exists thanks to the fire, I'll be looking on-line for some interesting replacements.
What is the place you are all getting your gorgeous snails from?
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Here ya go Sue... although, they're out of stock of the Reds again now... You've gotta be quick...!!!
https://www.pro-shrimp.co.uk/211-snails (Reds at bottom of page)
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Thank you for the link. It never occurred to me that ProShrimp sold snails as well :-[
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I may be wrong but I have a feeling they only started doing so shortly before I bought my beautiful orange one from there in May last year.
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Of course the ones I like - mixed Clithon sowerbyana and Vittina waigiensis - are out of stock so I must keep an eye out for when they are available again.
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Nice, those Clithon Sowerbyana Sue...
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They come both plain and patterned. Make sure you get ones you like... mine are disappointingly 'merky green' colour. They arw nice an active though so you get to see more of them :)
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Really chuffed with my now five Red Nerites from that "active" and visible point of view... :) The one Nerite that is difficult to see is the solitary Black Helmet Nerite, although to be fair his roll was always about being an essential part of the clean up crew as opposed to being pleasant on the eye...
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Low & behold, the very day after I moan about the Black Helmet Nerite being almost invisible, I catch him doing a full length of the tank's front glass today and in broad daylight too...!!! Blimey, he's fast though...!!! I would certainly recommend the Black Helmet Nerites to anybody wanting a really good clean up crew member... :)