Hitchhiking snail
 

I found this snail attached to one of my other trochus snails. I found the trochus snail dead this morning. I am unable to identify this snail and was wondering if it is the culprit.

Thanks,
Keith

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I'd try to match tht shell to pictures of whelks....

Did I hear "Whelk"?

http://www.spaghettisoft.com/fish/whelk.gif

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Sorry... This is of no help...

I think that I do have a whelk. Some of the shells look similar and the behavour fits what I read in other places on this board once I had a word to search with. Now I have to figure out what to do with the whelk since I would like to get clams eventually and well, I don't care to have my snail population killed off either.

Thanks
Keith

Put it in the sump? If you have one....

Sadly I don't have a sump. The critter is currently hanging from a bag with a small piece of live rock in my tank. I was going to set s ump up but I am not very close to doing it.

Give it to someone with a mantis? Trigger tank?!?

I have put a thread in the buy/sell section. I am giving the guy away for free.

Thanks,
Keith

Just an FYI, I had a whelk looking thing in my tank for about 4 years, never did anything wrong. Just because it was suckered onto a snail that later died doesn't mean it did the killing....