Congo Beak Growth

[xrayjeeper83]

how hard are their shells? Anything like an MTS?

[Pufferpunk]

Wow, that's just a krrrrrazy snail!

[Troender]

Ah! Those are called Sulawesi snails around here. They are really cool!

[Hierony]

I might look around for some, haha. They look really neat. I feel like with a miurus living in the sand 80% of the time I should have some cool things to look at. I just really didn't like the look of a racquetball sized apple snail. I'd rather a team of smaller guys. I was leaning toward Nerites just because I knew their numbers would stay under control in fresh water. Plus I think they have some really beautiful shells.

[chris90]

Those Puffers are very cool!.. i hope i could have one!

[Troender]

If you want to see a lot of cool Sulawesi snails, take a look at this topic in a Norwegain forum. I've linked to the end of the topic, as there isn't many sulawesi pics in the beginning. Click on the small pics to enlarge them. There are a lot of other snails there too.

[pufferpuggirl]

I just got 2 more sulawesi snails this morning, and they are much much bigger than the ones I have in Orangetta's tank. I've put them in with Biscuit. And I agree that it is nice to see some activity in the tank since Biscuit stays hidden most of the time. I like how with the sulawesi you can see where they've been and I like watching them move, different than a normal snail.
To answer your question xray -- I believe their shells are every bit as hard as MTS, and they do look alot like MTS as well .... but definitely different once they come out of their shell.

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Troender -- I just had to add, I have Google Chrome and it allows me to translate web pages into English if they are in foreign languages, and I did that with the forum link you have above .... I have to say, because the translation isn't perfect, it's so funny to read how it comes out. Make it much more comical than it should be I'm sure, but on a serious note, it's nice to know there's other snail lovers out there. I think snails are very cool, not just puffer food, although I use my ramshorn and some Apple snails for that purpose too. Anyway, thanks for sharing.

[Troender]

Troender -- I just had to add, I have Google Chrome and it allows me to translate web pages into English if they are in foreign languages, and I did that with the forum link you have above .... I have to say, because the translation isn't perfect, it's so funny to read how it comes out. Make it much more comical than it should be I'm sure, but on a serious note, it's nice to know there's other snail lovers out there.

Actually, there's a lot of fun written in that topic, but lots of it are untranslatable. Some of it you will never find in a dictionary, as it's not proper Norwegian. But there's two things that can help a little bit: We've nicknamed the Sulawesi snails "sulle". And one person is writing "vettu" over and over again, and it means "you know".

[Ohyouknow]

those snails are quite beautiful in that link you posted. It had my daughter and I entertained for quite a while - I'd love to get some beauties like those, myself!