Baby Trochus snails

[Murminator]

A few days ago I noticed a small baby red banded snail he was so small his shell was almost flat made me think hmm where did that come from? thought maybe a hitchhiker. Well tonight during a water change I noticed about 15 or so in my sump some are fairly small and a couple are the size of dimes but their shells have a very shallow cone to it it barely come to a point. This kinda made me excited woohoo free snails, I did have snail eggs about a year ago in a different tank but I cannot imagine these are from them.
Anyone else bred or raised snails......besides freshwater those are easy

Oh and before anyone asks they are not Collonista snails I have both and I know the difference

[spoot]

I have a 75g LR holding tank and I have noticed that I too have baby snails. Purchased LR from a local reefer but have not got everything set up yet for salt. At first I thought me snails were collonista, but at the moment they are still to small to tell.

[Bartman]

Do an Internet search for Stomatella Varia snails. They breed in my tanks and they look similar to what you describe.

[honkey sauce]

tochus breed well.I have hundreds now

[Murminator]

I dug out the biggest one I could find now that I really look there probably about 30+







Sorry for the crappy pics but I'm working the best with what I got

[muck]

Looks definately like a red-banded trochus to me Murray.

[Beermaster]

woohoo, Murray's a daddy

[honkey sauce]

are you sure its not astrea

[DanG]

That snail looks a lot like the ones that eat zoos, but I can't remember what they are called. They are supposed to have a red and black checkered pattern on them...

[Murminator]

Originally Posted by DanG

That snail looks a lot like the ones that eat zoos, but I can't remember what they are called. They are supposed to have a red and black checkered pattern on them...

Nope there not sundials