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mystikdragon7
09/06/2006, 09:06 PM
Pick this up when I got the anemone today. Can someone ID what type of cowrie it is? Is it reef safe?
Thank you very much!!!

http://overvolt.net/kristi/hh.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/80/236326381_aaa60a280c.jpg?v=0[/url]

Ooulophilia
09/06/2006, 09:27 PM
I don't have the scientific but they are commonly sold as tiger cowries - When small they eat algae, but seem to be fairly indiscriminate (corals, ect...) in what they eat when they get larger (they get fairly big, I had one in my fuge that was pushing softball size. The shell becomes banded and dull as they mature

mystikdragon7
09/07/2006, 03:34 PM
I'm not sure that's a tiger cowrie. The pictures I have looked at seem to be different. But I am no expert.