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Murminator
03-15-2007, 04:25 AM
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 :wink:

Oh and before anyone asks they are not Collonista snails I have both and I know the difference :mrgreen:
spoot
03-15-2007, 07:42 AM
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
03-15-2007, 11:32 PM
Do an Internet search for Stomatella Varia snails. They breed in my tanks and they look similar to what you describe.
honkey sauce
03-16-2007, 12:29 AM
tochus breed well.I have hundreds now

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u23/honkeysauce/snail.jpg
Murminator
03-16-2007, 04:22 AM
I dug out the biggest one I could find now that I really look there probably about 30+ :cool:

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/Murminator/Saltwater/100_1493.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/Murminator/Saltwater/100_1494.jpg

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c142/Murminator/Saltwater/100_1495.jpg

Sorry for the crappy pics but I'm working the best with what I got :redface:
muck
03-16-2007, 02:58 PM
Looks definately like a red-banded trochus to me Murray.
Beermaster
03-16-2007, 04:18 PM
woohoo, Murray's a daddy
honkey sauce
03-17-2007, 05:40 PM
are you sure its not astrea
DanG
03-17-2007, 06:23 PM
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
03-17-2007, 10:41 PM
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 :mrgreen:
DanG
03-18-2007, 02:25 PM
Nope there not sundials :mrgreen:

In that case then, oops. I found one that looked exactly like that in my skimmer and pulled him out thinking he was a zoo eater.