[Delphinus]

Hi Troy, yeah, but the problem with letting it find its own spot is that ... well two things actually ... 1) I don't have the luxury of time as I'm vamoosed out your way for my annual BC pilgrimage (er .. camping vacation ;) ) starting in 5 days. 2) basically when I find it has moved, I am finding it upside down periodically and it seems unable to right itself so I have to reach in and right it myself (maybe I haven't waited long enough. But say if it's left upside-down for as long as two weeks ... I'm pretty sure I will be coming home to find to nice clean but empty shells). That's why I'm fishing for help.

I found the bowl-shaped rock has worked once for me, one of my T. max's likes it. The other one hated the same idea, so that one sits instead on rubble, with a pile of rubble around it to stabilize it. I have no idea if it's attached to the rock it's on yet, and I fear trying to find out, if I move any of the stabilizing rocks and it flops over then I'm back to square one. I am hoping to avoid this same ordeal with this new squamosa.

To be fair, I don't know if it's always moving on its own, or if it's just in a spot with too much current, or if it's the snails that are knocking it over (my ONE turbo snail, a 2.5" monster sized snail, has an amazing ability to sniff out the location of a loose clam, and go over there and start cleaning the rocks all around it.. meanwhile it's HUGE shell bumps into anything not glued down, knocking things over... including said clam) For this reason I'd be happier with the "bowl shaped rock" over the sand, because it will never be able to forever withstand that kind of fumbling bumping if it's in sand with nothing to stabilize it... :(

Oh well. I've got a few days yet to figure this out ...