Life Cycle of the Conch
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2008
- Conch are fast growing marine snails that feed on algae.
They move from the shallow water into deeper waters as they grow and return to the shallows to lay eggs.
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The shell grows with the conch as it gets bigger
Thanks the info. This was very informative. We were curious since my husband just brought home several from the beach this morning.
What to feed them
Not really. When it hatches from its egg it has a free swimming life stage and is called a trocophore. At this stage it doesn't have a shell that looks like the adult
I pronounce it differently
That was very interesting. I didn't realised that Strombus gigas grew that fast.
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Excellent information. Thank you so much!!!
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you
Amazing!
Interesting. Great video.
Wow they grow fast and big
Yep. Conch's are awesome.
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Thank you! I loved this!
Thank you! Tell us where you're from. In school? Learning about the ocean?
thanks
thanks i never knew that
So the larva is a slug like creature, and it grows the shell off of it? the shell is created by the larva? not found?
I have one as a pet but it doesn’t move around much it’s about the size of a lime and just kinda curls up inside its shell and doesn’t move much. Is that normal? It has plent of big rocks with algae and sea grass and seaweed and sand
How do the shells grow?? Are the shells "alive" or does the conch keep building the shell bigger?
The mantle of the gastropod adds to the shell seasonally, somewhat like a tree adds rings.
Exactly what I had hoped to learn from this video but somewhat disappointed. Pretty impressive that the shells become so large and strong
I saw a video where it showed they are born with them, and explained it just slowly gets bigger, like the other person mentioned rings of a tree.
@SugarCoatedLies Yes, very much so. :O
does the shell grow with them or do they have to find another shell then shape it?
ohh are they born with the shell? and thanks!
Hey friend I need your help ....I have one conch ...and I don't have any idea how to keep that ...plz help
Do you have any tanks with helmet snails or tritons?
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Wow
do you have any information on freshwater conchs I found one I live in Missouri in the Ozarks and I found a conch that was about the size of my fist on a dry bed in the 11-point river any information you could share would be greatly appreciated thank you.
I'm interested in raising crawdads mud crabs and other things as alternative food inside below ground greenhouses.
Why are they all dead?
Thank you! Very informative 😊
Is the shell part of the body like a exoskeleton or is it not attached to the animal?
And how do they grow the bumps on the outside?
The conch secretes calcium carbonate to create it's shell. The animal livs inside the shell. Too understand the bumps, look up 'spiral ornamentation'. Thanks for watching!
interesting
How can I breed them and do they die if the are not in water
Lol that's a dumb question
If an animal spends its entire life cycle in water, of course it can't survive outside of water
Yes they can survive long periods out of water. If rain water touches them however they die quickly!!
@@BabysFace lol its amazing how rude ppl get when they think they 'KNOW FOR A FACT' no asshole ur wrong it can survive on land 4 over a week. Im bahamian i knw that 4 a fact!!
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So, these that you took from the sea, now what do you do with them?
No worries. They were taken back out in the sea grass beds and released.
Wait...so the shell itself grows? Without an animal in it?
It's a good trick. The conch does grow its shell. The conch secrets calcium carbonate which hardens into the shell. It expands outward at the edges. So the center stays smaller but the farther out it goes, the shell is bigger. They do that until full grown at 4-6 years.
A growing problem comes with ocean acidification. As the ocean gets more acidic, it can start to eat away at the calcium carbonite that all shellfish use to create their shells.
Take a look at "The Acid Ocean" ua-cam.com/video/cPf05z-4nWE/v-deo.html
do crabs find the dead shells?
Would a crab eat it to take the shell?
@Eric VandenAvond oh damn. Theyre less cute now!
Yes, I've seen hermits occupying empty queen conch shells. No they don't prey on them.
How can beautiful shells have such yucky critters inside them?
Mollosks are pretty fascinating. The shell is cool but i want to see the actual creature too.
But is it conch (konk) or conch (con-che)?
In the Bahamas, where this conch lives, they say konk. I don't think Ive heard it any other way,
Why do you have these? Are you a biologist studying them or are you farming them?
Hi Greg, Good question. These conch are in the Bahamas on San Salvador Island. We brought them in to an island lab for short term study. A small DNA sample was taken and then they were returned to the eel grass beds where they live.
@@Microdocs cool! Is it a population study? Ive been diving in Cuba for about a year and have been seeing them around. The local natural resources folks on GTMO have put a no take limit on them. Now i see them all over. Massive and beautiful. Just trying to learn about life history some. Found another site with some good info too. Thanks.
@@greg3087 The goal was to dig deeper into understanding the conch lifecycle and use the DNA to add to the data pool so other scientists can see if the conchs on this island are related to the conchs on that island. So not a population study of numbers, but a study to see how reproduction patterns. Good to have a limit. They're pretty easy to find and people like to eat them. So long term, that means they could be overfished.
I didn't know that shells grow
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Hi, Yes. The shells get bigger as the conch grows. It's very smooth inside the shells. The fun thing is when you see the conch look at you with eyes that come out from inside the shell on stalks.
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