I have a strawberry conch (conomurex luhuanus) for about 3 months now.
At first, when i introduced it in the new tank it was slowly hopping it's way around the tank all day, eating algae. Now it spends most of the time buried in the sandbed moving places maybe once a day or so. Occasionally i feed it hikari algae wafers. Is the snail ok? Does it eat detritus(which it has a lot) from the sand, that had accumulated over 3 months and has no need to go around the tank constantly to find bits of food, or is it starving? It lives in long 15 gallon with 1-2 inch sandbed. I think it is theoretically may be enough, but I'm not sure now, because of it's behaviour change after tank's maturation.
Ps: the sand has algae on it most of the time, because I'm trying to figure out what my macroalgae needs, video was done after the waterchange
At first, when i introduced it in the new tank it was slowly hopping it's way around the tank all day, eating algae. Now it spends most of the time buried in the sandbed moving places maybe once a day or so. Occasionally i feed it hikari algae wafers. Is the snail ok? Does it eat detritus(which it has a lot) from the sand, that had accumulated over 3 months and has no need to go around the tank constantly to find bits of food, or is it starving? It lives in long 15 gallon with 1-2 inch sandbed. I think it is theoretically may be enough, but I'm not sure now, because of it's behaviour change after tank's maturation.
Ps: the sand has algae on it most of the time, because I'm trying to figure out what my macroalgae needs, video was done after the waterchange