Adriatic calamary, Sea saucer

Vanessa

Hello everyone, I was on vacation in Crete and brought back a dozen illegal snails: 1. 2. I might have made a mistake with the identification, all the snails arrived alive and healthy, the second ones were quickly dealt with by the wrasses, they almost wiped them all out, while the first ones eagerly started eating the green algae (there's a ton of it that grew in 2 weeks)... today I saw one snail crawling out of the aquarium, the question is whether it is possible to keep them in a marine aquarium or is that a utopia?

Nicole

Visually, from memory, the second very useful snail. At one point, I wanted to order some from the States, but they don't operate in our direction yet. It works up to cyan. If not all the shrimp have been wiped out, I'm first in line for the young ones when they breed.

Cheryl9296

The second ones were scraped from the coastal rocks, resembling stomateles but only with mega-suckers; the search hits them like residents of the Black Sea. There is a suspicion that our salinity is too high for them, as they tend to escape. The sea in Crete seems Mediterranean; they call it the Cretan Bay. There are somehow three seas nearby, and I still didn't understand which one I swam in.

Kristen2246

Things like in the second photo (the cone thing), I used to collect in Yalta back in 1975 when I was a snotty pioneer. It's impossible to pull them off by hand; we did it with a hairpin, but you have to be careful not to poke it, because it gets pressed in so tightly that you can't even slide the hairpin in, and you have to aim between your leg and the stone. The big ones were the size of a 5 kopeck coin. But nowadays I searched for them and couldn't find any, maybe I wasn't looking in the right place...

Darrell7542

Well, praise Neptune, those second ones sit like they're lifeless... while the first ones, on the contrary, are caught daily on the floor, where they cheerfully scurry around, obviously late for their flight to Heraklion-home.

John1464

I had 5 of these Mediterranean ones. They were taken from the back side of the stones at a depth of 1 meter near Kemer. After a year, only 3 remained. One got burned on the heater, and the other just disappeared somewhere. The others have been living for just over a year. They constantly crawl on the glass and stones, but not on the sand. They do not reproduce... It seems they are constantly cleaning the glass like stomatellas, but the glass doesn't get any cleaner.

Brandy

They have also settled in, they are half-buried and won't come out, it's a pity if they don't reproduce.

Andrew419

Out of 7 snails of the first type, about 4 are left, behaving exemplary, but at some point, they come out in a crowd, and 3 have dried up... perhaps they sense fluctuations in nitrates or reproduce this way... but every day I have to inspect the floor around the aquarium...

Kevin8087

There are also twisted ones with long trunks, joyfully running for meat with all their might; how they survived from June to November when I didn't feed anyone is unclear... by the way, just like the coris, which was exclusively on forage.

Laura7633

Interesting information. I have an idea: to bring in Black Sea flounders and release them into the fishery. There is a lot of sand there. About 4 years ago, I had flounders living in a separate aquarium at a salinity of 35%. They were cool, lived a long time, and even grew. They gradually passed away due to poor-quality either tubifex or bloodworms.