View Full Version : Septaria Snails?
jamesstill84
07-22-2009, 4:39 PM
Does anyone have any experience with Septaria species of snails? They're also called Abalone Snails. I would love to have some, but don't know anything about them...
Here's the pics of some I've seen...
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jackiomy
07-22-2009, 4:44 PM
I have these which are very cool. Neripteron tahitensis, or batman snails.
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jamesstill84
07-22-2009, 4:51 PM
I love Batman snails, but they're a little pricey for me right now. :( Maybe in a month or two I can get some of those. :)
vampie
07-22-2009, 4:54 PM
Septaria and Neripteron are both Nerite genera, and both with very limpet-like shells. I'd imagine their care would be the same as other freshwater Nerites.
jamesstill84
07-22-2009, 5:16 PM
Has anyone every seen one for sale anywhere? I had never heard of them until I found a pic of them on some random website.
BioHazard
07-22-2009, 5:17 PM
Mgamer still has some Batman nerites, last time I checked.
jamesstill84
07-22-2009, 5:43 PM
Yeah, I've seen his here on AC and on Aquabid.
Wow... not seen those before... those are nice.
vampie
07-22-2009, 5:48 PM
Doesn't Mgamer sell Septaria as well.. or it could've been another member.. msjinkzd? Sounguru?
They're usually sold under the common name of Turtle snail, Green turtle snail or similar variations.
jamesstill84
07-22-2009, 5:49 PM
Doesn't Mgamer sell Septaria as well.. or it could've been another member.. msjinkzd? Sounguru?
They're usually sold under the common name of Turtle snail, Green turtle snail or similar variations.
You know what? You might be right. I had completely forgotten that I had heard of someone selling Turtle Snails. I just never put 2 & 2 together to get 4...lol.
I've had a couple of them. They're really nice and even faster to crawl compared from other nerites.
jamesstill84
07-22-2009, 6:34 PM
Sweet! I can't wait to get some. :)
jpappy789
07-22-2009, 8:56 PM
Those are very interesting!
I forgot to add that Arakkis commented these are also shortlived compared to the other nerites we get. I talked to Arakkis about these snails last April and he said they seem to have a shorter lifespan but I haven't determined yet how long they exactly live because I lost my only two Septaria sp.
msjinkzd
07-23-2009, 8:50 AM
They are also harder to work with <as a seller, lol> because of their shape. Neat little critters, I do have some but not for sale at the moment.
jamesstill84
07-23-2009, 10:07 AM
MsJ, you have everything! I'm so jealous, lol. I can usually only find 1 or 2 limpets in my tank at any point in time and I like them, so when I saw this snail, i got pretty excited. :)
Arakkis
07-24-2009, 12:22 PM
Septaria are much more finiky than the batman snail.. I have a ton of batmans and *had* a bunch of septaria but now a few months down the road, they didn't survive the tranship.. I'll work on trying again in the near future
jamesstill84
07-24-2009, 12:25 PM
Does anyone know the lifespan of these snails?
Arakkis
07-25-2009, 1:22 AM
supposedly 1~2 years on a good batch
jamesstill84
07-27-2009, 11:12 AM
Hmm... If that's the case, I'm not sure I'll get any since they can't breed for me.