Ny Nass snails are attacking my new dwarf feather duster!!

[chichimom79]

I am flipping out! I apparantly bought a $12 snack for my Nass snails because they all attacked the feather duster. I moved them away from it and moved the worm to the top part of a rock, but I know if I go back in there, they will be on it again, and I think it is too late anyway. One of them had his snail tube all the way down into the feather duster tube.... :( I am so bummed. :(

Wish I knew nass snails had a taste for feather duster.

Come to think of it, I've seen less bristles too.... Do Nass snails have a taste for all kinds of worms??

 

[Smitty]

Wow, sorry to hear that...they must have smelled the feather duster was dying, which is why they they're going after it.

 

[chichimom79]

It looked so healthy!

 

[Smitty]

Double check to make sure you didn't buy a group of whelks...they look just like nass snails, but they're predators.

 

[chichimom79]

Oh, freaking great!!! How can I tell if they are?

 

[Smitty]

I'm not 100% sure, but you should google whelks, and see if yours resemble the pics. Lets hope not.

 

[chichimom79]

Well, two of the nass snails look different from the other three, but I have found pics of both under nassarius. The two darker ones could be questionable. I think I will be taking back at least the two darker ones since they attacked first and asking them WTF....

 

[little_fish]

If they are all nass snails, they went after the feather duster because it was dying. Nass snails and bristle worms only go after dead and dying animals.

 

[chichimom79]

I think they are all Nass snails, but the two darker ones do behave differently than the lighter ones. I think I will feel better if I take those two out, even if they aren't cold blooded feather duster killers- which I still kinda think they are.... Could it be that since I am underfeeding that tank, they are just extra hungry? Humans turn to cannibalism, in extreme hunger situations... lol
But I guess the duster could have been dying... I had to acclimate it for like four hours due to the salinity in the bag being over 1.030 and higher than my refractometer could read.... I will be calling to complain to the LFS today .

 

[Smitty]

You may have a point...if they we're extremely hungry, they possibly could have targeted the duster. I know when mines are hungry, when they start crawling up the glass walls looking for food.

 

[FishyReef]

If the salinity in the bag was that high, the featherduster may have been dying in the bag and hence why the snails when after it. I haven't seen any of my 24 nassarius snails anywhere near my feather duster. And I also have different colored nassies, some darker than the others, but they all seem to behave pretty much the same. How do your two darker ones behave differently?

 

[FishyReef]

Double check to make sure you didn't buy a group of whelks...they look just like nass snails, but they're predators.

Wow Smitty, they do look just like nassarius snails!

 

[chichimom79]

How do your two darker ones behave differently?

The two darker snails are really fast, and I see them out on top of the sand more often than the light grey ones.

I called my LFS and they are going to give me a credit on the feather duster, and this will be the second time I have told them their salinity is way too high.....