Fighting Conch

[Demm]

i have a fighting conch that ive had for almost 2 months now. seems to be doing really well. seems active and everything. anyways about a week ago i got some turbo snails. tonight i noticed some wierd behavior from the conch. it basically "charged" at a snail and kinda rammed it with its shell. it hopped over to it pretty fast. by hopped i mean it was actually jumping about an inch off the sand. it was a rather funny sight to see lo. But my real question is. do conchs have something again turbo snails? maybe because they look similar in its eyes? was it attacking it? not sure what to really think about the whole thing.

The whole episode lasted about 10 minutes. i guess the conch gave up because the snail was on the glass and it had no way to get to it. it tried to jump on top of it but couldnt. but then just decided to walk away?

[txg8gxp]

Wow, crazy. You got to love nature.

[hobogato]

you have to get some video of that!

[Demm]

Here's a video for you guys. This video is most of it just walking around. at 3:00 minutes is when it starts hopping a bit more then usual. But it's still not as high and fast as it did it before. A day before this video i was watching him, and he went into a corner of the tank and was jumping in one place, looking like he wanted to climb the wall. It was pretty amusing to watch. I'll try to get more videos as i can. I recorded for about 40 minutes yesterday and this was the most exciting thing i got lol

Sorry about the bad quality, i took the video with my cell phone. was the only thing i had with a movie light (i made the video at night)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS874Noyugg

[hobogato]

that is really cool, thanks for posting the video