{"id":365,"date":"2013-12-15T05:15:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=365"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:07:17","slug":"fighting-conch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2013\/12\/15\/fighting-conch\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Conch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason these snails are called the Fighting Conch even though they don&#8217;t seem to fight.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_364\" style=\"width: 1162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Conch.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Conch.jpg\" alt=\"A picture of conch foraging on the sand bed.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"648\" class=\"size-full wp-image-364\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Conch.jpg 1152w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Conch-300x168.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Conch-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conch foraging on the sand bed.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>They eat all sorts of stuff off the sand bed, basically they are omnivores, and keep your tank clean. They look interesting while doing that.<\/p>\n<p>The conch has that appendage that looks like an elephant&#8217;s trunk and uses it to eat with.<br \/>\nIts eyes are also on stalks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquaticcommunity.com\/SwSnails\/FightingConch.php\" title=\"Fighting Conch - Strombus alatus\" target=\"_blank\">Fighting Conch &#8211; Strombus alatus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever reason these snails are called the Fighting Conch even though they don&#8217;t seem to fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,12,18,31,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}