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Cone snails are all members of the genus Conus - in fact there are over 800 species found all over the world. These snails are all predators so none of them will make good additions to your reef tank's clean up crew. While most cone snails eat worms and things like that, some eat other snails, and a few of them even eat fish! Every once in a while one will show up in an order of snails - usually a variety that likes to eat snails like the Hebrew Cone.
Fish eating cone snails like C. geographus are probably responsible for nearly 100% of the fatal envenomations that are attributable to cone snails. Other species, like C. tulipa also eat fish and can deliver a potentially deadly sting. Even some of the snail eating species like C. textile can deliver life threatening stings!
If you suspect a cone snail in some snails you've bought recently carefully remove it and take photos from the top and bottom of the snail. Seeing the opening on the bottom will help identify it. Forums like Reef2Reef will be able to help you ID your potential cone snail.
As a type 1 diabetic, I feel very sorry for those poor fish that go into hypoglycemic shock. Low blood sugar doesn’t feel good at all. It’s not just falling unconscious; you get shaky, confused, dizzy, and eventually you pass out. Not a pleasant way to go, but I suppose it would be better than being fully awake but paralyzed while the snail eats you.
The pain medication derived from cone snail toxin sounds very interesting, though.
Should be mentioned that conotoxin is so ridiculously deadly that getting bit by one of these things is practically a guaranteed death.
In one case, a woman found two of them underwater and picked them up, taking them up to the surface with her. While she was holding them up for someone else to photograph, both of them fired out their radula at the same time, and struck her in the neck.
She was dead before she hit the ground.
I believe it! They're not to be messed with, for sure. Pretty shells, but certainly not something I'd touch if I saw one in the wild.
@@ReefMan Humans are hard-wired to see bright colours on animals and go "Ooh, pretty! I want to touch it!", which is exactly the opposite of what evolution intended those colours to be for.
@@ToaArcan exactly. Bright colors = caution!
Great video. Very informative!
Great video! You seem super nervous though, gain some self confidence!!
yep, quite interesting, and not 'hyped upper like some people would do...
Very good presentation informative
Glad you liked it!!
I just ate about 6-7 this kind of snail last night by boiling them with coconut milk. Will I be alright?
In the Philippines there are edible cone snail. Sometimes during low tide foraging we just grab them by barehand out of the water surface to check them and just throw it away when its the wrong snail. We really don't know the poisonous one, we just know the edible ones. If there are death due to cone snail, then maybe people would know but there is none. Same like with eels, we consume the brown moray eel but not the striped ones.
Nice video enjoyed watching . Subscribed to your channel :)
Thanks!
Hey ReefMan, is the shell itself dangerous? I mean, what if I want to put it on my shelf, is it known if it can cause an allergic reaction or does it have any kind of effect when denatured?
Not that I know of. Only the animal inside. The shell is pretty benign.
I recently stumbled across a textile shell at a nearby beach in Florida and not knowing those snails are supposed to be venomous, I let it crawl all over me... However the snail itself was all yellow and didn't have a barb from what I can see unlike all the internet pictures. Ever heard of something like that? Could it be albino?
That was probably a Florida Cone. It may have also been an Olive shell which has a similar pattern to textile shells but is not venomous. You don't have to worry about getting killed by a cone snail in Florida, the worst stings are only as bad as bee stings.
@@isaacc473i was nervously scrolling through comments to see how this is possible. I have seen and picked up several on the beach where I live in Florida. I never heard of a venomous snail before today and I have handled and thoroughly inspected similar looking shells during beach walks. This is unnerving for me now.
@ikreate4u in Florida you shouldn’t have anything to worry about. The Florida Cone can “sting” with its harpoon, but it doesn’t have dangerous venom so if you clean it like you would a bee sting you should be fine. It might hurt though!!
All right guys where are the hammerhead worms?
cone snail vs sea anemones which would win ?
Anemone.
Is conesnail edible?
Anything is edible if you try hard enough, but they're not very big so I doubt it'd be worth it...
@@ReefMan We actually have food in the province that looks like that . Best cooked as a curry I asked because I've read that some of them are actually poisonous lmao.
They are very venomous, but maybe cooking denatures it?
@@ReefMan Oh i see, so their not poisonous but venomous? That's prolly it or prolly as you've said, but man I'm craving for some rn. Hard to get ahold of them by bulk in the city .
Be safe
Can you kill a cone snail 🤔😵
Diabetes snail
Diabetes snail
we eat them
What do they taste like? Do you fry them?
That is 6:51 out of my life I can never get back. My advice would be to pass on this video.
Yeah why was he talking about snails there weren't any explosions or guns or explosion guns at all, and I didn't see a single booby. Worst informative snail video ever.