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Mark Peterson 
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 Topic: sex in the aquarium
Posted: September 05 2004 at 8:40pm |
Oh man, I wish my digital camera wasn't in pieces here on my desk 
All my snails are in the mood 
One Cerith laid a big long string the other night and now the water is totally cloudy because not only the Mexican, but the Astrea are doing it.... spawning. If I only had a nickle for every zygote 
The normally reclusive peppermint shrimp are out, catching & eating eggs.
So then I looked over into the fraggin tank to see if the feeling is mutual and immediately saw a pooof of eggs from a mexican snail.
It's pretty impressive, to me, to see groups of snails piggybacked on top of each other at the top of the highest rocks with milky streams pouring out of two or three and every once in a while a poof of eggs from another. 
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Posted: September 05 2004 at 9:18pm |
It's a good thing at least one of us is figuring out how to propogate snails since it looks like there will slim pickings from Florida. Way to go Mark  . Let us know when you have annoucements to make!
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Mark Peterson
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Posted: September 05 2004 at 10:06pm |
The last time this happened in one of my new tank setups, over the following year I gave away literally hundreds of Mexican Turban Snails. Ain't life great!
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Posted: September 06 2004 at 10:25am |
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That's really cool!! You wouldn't happen to know of a type of snail that lays a round sack with eggs inside, would you? I keep finding egg sacks. Each sack normally has 8 eggs in it, and they last for 8 days.
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Posted: September 11 2004 at 7:58am |
When I read the title, I couldn't help but let my mind wander. My tank is 6' long, but that's just a little too kinky for me. Besides, I'm sure my cleaner shrimp would be picking on me the whole time which is rather distracting.
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Posted: September 11 2004 at 8:50am |
You would let a little thing like a cleaner shrimp distract you from the mission? Oh, dear. That's kinda sad, Patrick! 
~Renee
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Posted: September 11 2004 at 8:54am |
You gotta understand. My cleaner shrimp scares me now and he chases my arm everytime I put my arm in the tank now. When I first got him, I thought it was cute that he'd climb on my arm and stuff (I left my wrasses and peppermint shrimp climb on me, no biggy). BUT this cleaner shrimp seems to think the hair on my arms must be worms or something, cause the first time he climbed on me he was picking at my arm and Drew Blood!
Now I chase him away with my finger whenever I have to work the tank. He scares me
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Posted: September 11 2004 at 9:16am |
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He Adores you! Isn't that sweet? He's taking care of you! Give him a name like Doc. Or Nurse. Come on now, you're a big guy! The loss of a little blood won't hurt, and it's good protein. He's just taking care of ya!
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Posted: September 11 2004 at 9:30am |
But Na-Nae, it huwts big owies ... *sniff*
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Posted: September 11 2004 at 9:51am |
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I could trade you Cleaners. I have two that have never gone for blood. Well, not my arm anyway. But I don't have hairy arms. Nae-Nae make it all better!
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Posted: September 12 2004 at 11:16pm |
Renee, the answer is Astrea Snails.
My wandering mind is a dangerous thing
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