John Timmerman wrote:

>
> I just have never found shells in washed up egg cases the way I often  do
> with Busycon.
>
> I bet crawling young would make incubating them for  mariculture so much more
> easy as you do not have to keep track of plankton  sized babies.
>
> Mariculture is being performed successfully on other mollusks with free
> swimming veligers such as Tridacna gigas and Turbo marmoratus. It would seem
> logical that crawl away young would be easier to hatch though the cannibalism
> issue would certainly be a limiting factor for holding large groups of juveniles
> in group tanks.
>
> John Timmerman

I'm not sure mariculture is a good idea. Horse conchs are quite
plentiful and are the T-Rex of the mollusks - they attack and
eat most (all?) other mollusks, including depleted species such
as S. gigas. That's how they get so big.

Mariculture of horse conchs would be like raising cockroaches in
yer Brooklyn apartment.

m

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