CONCH came with some rock

[naperenterprise]

so who has the most detailed conch info? LOL

[dustin_P74]

id look at wetwebmedia.com

[Bifferwine]

That's a neat hitch hiker to get. You're lucky! But in case you decide you don't want it, I've been kind enough to provide a recipe for Conch Soup that I just happened to find while I was googling images of conchs. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
4 medium conch, pounded and chopped
2 onions, chopped
1/2 cup vegetable oil
salt and pepper to taste
3 lemons, juiced
2 cans (28 oz. size) tomatoes, chopped
1 1/2 cup potatoes, peeled and chunked
4 stalks celery, cut into bite-size pieces
4 carrots, cut into bite-size pieces
2 cups water
1/4 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
2 cups sliced okra
2 bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon parsley

Directions:
In a large pot, saute onions in oil until translucent. Add salt and pepper. Add lemon juice, tomatoes and conch and increase heat. Add vegetables and rest of ingredients. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 3 hours. Remove bay leaves and serve.

This recipe for Conch Soup serves/makes 4

[d.french]

make sure you don't have a whelk, below is a link describing difference between welk and conch.

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-11/rs/index.php


take a pic and post if you can.

[RyanG]

I recongnize your user name. Are you a big poster oven on Reef Sanctuary? Glad to have you here.

Biff is a vegitarian so that Conch soup must be extraordinary.

As for the fighting conch they are pretty neat, they move in a sort of hopping movement. Will keep the top layer of sand clean, fairly active little guys.

[naperenterprise]

Yeah I'm over there on RS, was just looking for new and exciting places, how is it over here??

Originally Posted by RyanG

I recongnize your user name. Are you a big poster oven on Reef Sanctuary? Glad to have you here.

Biff is a vegitarian so that Conch soup must be extraordinary.

As for the fighting conch they are pretty neat, they move in a sort of hopping movement. Will keep the top layer of sand clean, fairly active little guys.

[yote]

Originally Posted by naperenterprise

Yeah I'm over there on RS, was just looking for new and exciting places, how is it over here??

I doubt you'd find a friendlier site anywhere on the web.

[reeffreak]

I have a username over there but haven't post much.I really should get around more,a pretty good place at RS.

Did this come as a hitchhiker with the live rock?It's pretty hard getting a fighting conch as a hitchhiker.If it is a fighting conch,great scavenger and sand stirrer.

[naperenterprise]

Yeah it came with a bunch of live rock I got for free... I had a big score getting rock covered in all sorts of corals.

here are some pics.


Some frog spawn, and a few leather type corals that have a bluish color to them.

This rock is covered in a brown star polip and clear cup coral or something?

There are a bunch of these very large colorful green mushrooms, they are about 3 to 4 inces accross to give you an idea how big they are...



The above 3 photo's are pics of various rock...just covered in different types of little corals...

Some torch coral I'm guessing, and I don't know what this hard encrusted coral in the middle is... It has a very hard skelital structure, almost like porates coral (the stuff the x-mas tree worms live with) but the polips are much bigger... who knows right now??


I love this one... is a gorg that is about a foot and a half long, very very healthy! It looks great in my tank!

And here is the little brain coral.[/quote]

[Bifferwine]

Those are not rocks with hitch hikers -- those are rocks with a full blown reef on them already! Congrats!