Little vacuum cleaner

piotr · Post by **piotr** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:57 pm

Florida Fighting Conch (Strombus alatus) is a marine snail. It often burrows itself in bottom sediments and consumes algae and cyanobacteria using its long snout. As you can see, the snail’s appearance is quite comical. It is still quite small (less than one inch long), but it can grow up to over three inches. It does pretty decent job cleaning coral sand bed and aquarium glass.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:38 pm

Quite a remarkable little creature and such beautiful eyes too. Pretty neat

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:14 pm

All creatures have their little nitches in this world piotr. You did a nice job on the pictures through the glass. Wonderful capture.

nephiliim · Post by **nephiliim** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 6:05 am

I really like the third one, it shows how alien-looking some creatures are to us. Those eyes are quite human / primate like. Really really cool stuff here. And shot through glass

my comliments!!

All the best,

Tom B

Bruce Williams · Post by **Bruce Williams** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:38 pm

Something quite different - very interesting too.

Bruce

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 7:04 pm

Interesting shots.

Irwin

piotr · Post by **piotr** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:49 pm

Thank you all for your kind comments!

Tom, the eyes are quite unusual, indeed. The snail has pretty good sight, too. It can see me approaching the tank from more than a foot away.