[Delphinus]

I hadn't seen the one in my 72g since April, so that's, what, 3 months? So I bought a strawberry conch from the Seacare order last week and guess who dug himself out of obscurity.. that figures.

Seems to me there's a lot of creative license as what we call a "fighting conch." The fighting conch that Sean has, for example, looks nothing like the fighting conch that I have, neither of which look anything like the so-called fighting conches that I saw at Wai's once. So ... three different vendors three different species one common name. (And of course according to the vendors, they're the only ones who have it right and everybody else is wrong. So you need to pick who to believe...)

A true fighting conch will not climb the glass or onto the rocks, but instead stay in the sand.

In my opinion, your best bet is to piggyback onto a MO from SWC or Seacare or some such. They seem to happen at least once a month or so, actually more frequently is likely, it's just that they're not always advertised in here. So if you don't see a pending order being organized in here just ask the vendor of your choice if there's an order going out anyways. If they're in a charitable mood they might ask the person if it's OK to have a person tack on a small thing.