Many thanks, Harry.

My teens, ha!!....computers didn't exist when I was in my teens....  and
we only had 2 TV channels too....

K

Harry G. Lee wrote:

> On 10/18/97 I posted this to Conch-L.  (That was when Kurt was in his
> teens):
>
> "................ My colleague, Henry McCullagh, has had a  similar
> experience in cowry husbandry.  His animals, Cypraea cervus, were
> collected
> by him in the inshore shallows of the Florida Keys, where they are easily
> observed feeding on Loggerhead Sponge.
>
> "Perhaps unabashed omnivory is a more apt description of their trophic
> behavior in vitro (like that of C. spadicea).  The C. cervus ate
> (occasionally from the hand that fed): red and green marine algae, living
> sponges (a locally-collected (N.E Florida) red species with maximal
> voracity), and moribund or dead mollusca (including naiads and estuarine
> clams on the half shell) rendered thus from primary predation by
> Phyllonotus fulvescens aquarium mates.  Henry's term of cowry stewardship
> lasted two to three years and was concluded with their liberation.  (The
> same P. f. were released after eighteen years in captivity.)
> ..................."
>
> I think these cowries also ate lettuce.  Email me privately for Henry's
> electronic address if you'd like,
> Harry
>
>
> At 09:38 AM 9/7/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Dear All....
>> A coworker has a newly acquired live Cypraea cervus.  Do they just graze
>> around the tank on algae, etc.?
>>
>> Any assistance you may provide will be appreciated....
>>
>> Kurt
>>
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>> Mr. Kurt Auffenberg
>> Operations Coordinator
>> Florida Museum of Natural History
>> Exhibits and Public Programs
>> pH: 352.846.2000, ext. 253
>> Fax: 352.846.0253
>> www.flmnh.ufl.edu
>
>
> Harry G. Lee, M.D.
> Suite 500
> 1801 Barrs Street
> Jacksonville, FL 32204 USA
> voice (904) 384 6419
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Florida Museum of Natural History
Exhibits and Public Programs
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