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marie 06-07-2007 03:17 AM

Snail ID
 
Anyone want to take a stab at Iding this snail?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...l/june6005.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...l/june6010.jpg

I've had 4 or 5 of them show up in my tank recently. I'm 99% certain they are herbivores because they spend most of their time on the glass, ignore the other snails and they are growing

marie 06-07-2007 10:53 PM

Nobody has any ideas?

04scoobysti 06-07-2007 11:17 PM

some kind of conch?

King of the Sea 06-08-2007 03:02 AM

?
 
looks like a sand snail thats maybe why u never seen them does it have stringy sand stuck to um sometimes?

ReefJunkie 06-08-2007 05:10 AM

I have no idea what type it is, but we have 2 in our tank, one is exactly the same as the one in your pic and the other is white with a black pattern on its shell. They started out tiny and are now about 1/2 an inch, neither bother anyone else and they seem to eat algae, they mostly stick to the glass or hide out in the macro algae. I think they may be a type of vegitarian whelk or something. I wouldn't mind knowing what they are though.

Johnny Reefer 06-08-2007 05:34 AM

A Tulip Snail perhaps? (Family Fasciolariidae).

marie 06-08-2007 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReefJunkie (Post 255120)
I have no idea what type it is, but we have 2 in our tank, one is exactly the same as the one in your pic and the other is white with a black pattern on its shell. They started out tiny and are now about 1/2 an inch, neither bother anyone else and they seem to eat algae, they mostly stick to the glass or hide out in the macro algae. I think they may be a type of vegitarian whelk or something. I wouldn't mind knowing what they are though.

Best i could come up with and they could be right was this from reefcentral
Quote:

looks like a columbellid (Euplica or Pyrene species)
http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-11/rs/index.php

niloc16 06-08-2007 07:06 AM

i'll take a stab. i believe it is a whelk.


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