Florida fighting conch

[darkprincess]

So I just watched my FFC FLIP a snail shell and rip the snail (tiger) out of it. It was either dead or dying. Unusual?

 

[darkprincess]

Bump...

 

[JustinKBreen]

I've had hermits kill snails..

 

[Starchar]

The Florida Fighting Conch is a scavenger and is omnivorous. Makes sense that it ate the dead/dying snail.

 

[darkprincess]

I assumed as much. The 4 inch barbed samurai blade it flipped out made me question the aggressiveness though...lol

 

[darkprincess]

Hermit crabs will kill snails for their shells.

 

[sanderson417]

I have a fighting conch. Where's the blade?

 

[darkprincess]

Attached to their foot. Mine uses his as a fulcrum to leverage and lift himself over rocks lol. It's pretty nasty looking though

 

[darkprincess]

I tried to get a pic of the barb. It's at a bad angle

 

[sanderson417]

Wow, your conch's shell looks so nice. Mine is gray and purple (purple being algae). I like that shell a lot.

 

[Gubernaculum86]

That's not a blade, it's their operculum. It basically acts as a trapdoor that they use to protect themselves when they pull back into their shell. It's not sharp and not used for anything other than protection and moving around.

 

[darkprincess]

Mine has a Sharp pointy tip and its got jagged barbs