Snail ID

[marie]

Anyone want to take a stab at Iding this snail?




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]

Nobody has any ideas?

[04scoobysti]

some kind of conch?

[King of the Sea]

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

[ReefJunkie]

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]

A Tulip Snail perhaps? (Family Fasciolariidae).

[marie]

Originally Posted by ReefJunkie

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

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

[niloc16]

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