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Aquarium Advice Apprentice
My g/f got another animal without researching it, on the advice of our LFS that tends to place sales over survival. :? They claimed this beautiful snail would sift through the sand and eat algae.
http://hiplog.com/hiplog/images/tmail.com/f7/b4/plurdawg/2005/02/15/101539/1_Photo_176.jpg
Sadly, it doesn't eat algae. I'm fairly certain it's a Hydatina Zonata. Species of Hydatina are very specialised worm feeders, eating only cirratulid polychaete worms. Since it does a wonderful job churning up the sand though, I'd like to try keeping it.
Here's what it eats in nature 8O : http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/Polychaetes/cirratulid.jpg
This is the best advice I've found so far, suggesting using baitworms as a substitute: http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=1690
Anyone have any success feeding anything to a Hydatina?
http://hiplog.com/hiplog/images/tmail.com/f7/b4/plurdawg/2005/02/15/101539/1_Photo_176.jpg
Sadly, it doesn't eat algae. I'm fairly certain it's a Hydatina Zonata. Species of Hydatina are very specialised worm feeders, eating only cirratulid polychaete worms. Since it does a wonderful job churning up the sand though, I'd like to try keeping it.
Here's what it eats in nature 8O : http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/Polychaetes/cirratulid.jpg
This is the best advice I've found so far, suggesting using baitworms as a substitute: http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=1690
Anyone have any success feeding anything to a Hydatina?