Saltwater snail
 

Conical shell snail

click to enlarge breed the eggs by searching from wildeggs have been found
length: 1.7 cm

From: shore's rocky area

Food: microorganism that swimming in the water
Basic criteria: 5-10cm saltwater and keep the water in transparent colour

characteristic

living underwater but can stay out of the water for almost half of a day

always like to stay on a place for several days then will go to another place and continue the cycle under the water

Breathing


if the environment is good, it like to
stretch the breathing pipe out by sucking and blowing the water
also, it can be a method to estimate the water quality 

if the water is bad, it will not using the pipe and it should change the water immediately

Eating

1. The pipe can eat the microorganism by filtering the water

2. Eat meat when it find prey, rapidly go near the prey and start eating

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The pictures show it eating the patellidae

2.1 After it eat

Unlike cold

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When water temperature down to 15℃, it will decrease the connection to the tank surface
and it easier to see its eyes and black body.

Unknown


Sometimes, the front of its white body have an organ look like a line, it can move while walking or standing

Mouth

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its mouth pipe can stretch out to it bottom

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its mouth pipe can stretch to its back

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its mouth pipe is flexible, can shape like S

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The video show its mouth pipe can stretch out to outward
It can stretch out to 50% of its length, the colour is transparent and mouth head is pink


The video show
its mouth pipe can stretch out and downward to eat the settling on the tank bottom

Petting time:
from 2005/8/

These eggs seem to be their eggs and compound the first two study in one

Basic criteria: 5-10cm good quality saltwater

Reason 1:
Generally, snail baby need to eat microorganism to grow and it eat microorganism too

Reason 2: snail and snail baby have a big shell too

Day 1

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early stage length: 4 mm  (all the egg link together)

Day 3



found over 20 single creatures moving inside the egg cover

Day 6

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The creatures become bigger

Day 8 - 13

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The creatures come out                  from the top of the cover and it is clear to see the exit hole


Size: 0.5 mm x 0.5 mm - 1 mm x 1 mm
This video shows the creature is finding food by filtering the water with moving the tentacles



The video show the baby swim up and down and moving tentacle on its two pieces of hand for food
sometimes, it will stay on water level for a certain period.

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Size: 1 mm x 1 mm
The creatures spin itself and swim up and down to find food by two white hands (like a butterfly wings)


Find few of the creatures stick on the wall and just moving hands to find food  

Find the creatures will sink to the bottom of tank when the light suddenly change dark
When the water is moving or under daylight, it like to swim up and down between the water level and tank bottom

Day 16 find some of the baby stick on the bottom of the tank

The video show it sticks on the bottom of the tank by the black part of the body

Day 24

The video show it tentacle moving more clear

Day 27



The video show it may using the black thing to move on the tank surface
 

Day 30

The video show its two pieces of hand become smaller

Another important thing find in these eggs

1. In the eggs area also have this
Conical shell snail again and it stick together

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2. Find the eggs was killed by an unknown bacteria,
    when it was infected, the eggs cell will become purple colour and the babies will disappear


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