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SleepyPirate 07-11-2011 11:13 PM

Living "sea shells" ?
 
Ok so I noticed today I had a few "sea shells" alive and moving in my tank, mostly they just try to hide, what are these guys I have a ton of dead ones in my sand but I never put much thought into living ones and what they are?

anyone know much about these shells?

whatcaneyedo 07-12-2011 12:42 AM

Sea shells? As in snails?

SleepyPirate 07-12-2011 12:44 AM

No likes as in Oysters or sometimes very small right now about 1" they seem to burrow in the sand actually seen one on glass but acidently knocked him off

whatcaneyedo 07-12-2011 12:49 AM

So its a bivalve and not a prosobranch? Can you supply a picture?

ScubaSteve 07-12-2011 12:50 AM

Is it one half of a shell? Could it be a stomatella snail?

SleepyPirate 07-12-2011 12:52 AM

Looks just like a bivalve from what I looked up. Its under the sand now but I first seem him sticking to the glass before I acidently knocked him into the sand before he burrowed under.

SleepyPirate 07-12-2011 01:02 AM

The best picture I could take of the small one, seems to be sitting like this.


http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...711185825.jpg/


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