Likes chitons

Joe Reefer · #1 01-11-2007, 03:06 PM

Nice shot, did you catch him with the lights off. I have watched my peppermint shrimp do the same thing with small snails.

mark · #2 01-11-2007, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

Nice shot, did you catch him with the lights off. I have watched my peppermint shrimp do the same thing with small snails.

In the open with the MH on.

Got 2 a couple of months ago (one's MIA now) but from the start they both were always visible during the day, but usually under a ledge.

i have crabs · #3 01-11-2007, 03:19 PM

mine perfers colt coral frags,but at least he also eats aiptasia

Delphinus · #4 01-11-2007, 06:41 PM

That's not a chiton, that's a stomatella snail.

But yeah shrimp (at least both peppermints and cleaners, IME) will pretty much decimate a tank's population of stomatella snails. Too bad but I guess there's always some give and take no matter what you choose to keep...

Funky_Fish14 · #5 01-12-2007, 12:24 AM

Looks like a Chiton to me, It appears to have seperated scales along the back and the rest of the 'hard' part to the sides of the scales is visible?

What a bummer on that one Mark!

Chris

Delphinus · #6 01-12-2007, 12:34 AM

You can see all that? It totally looks like an slightly-out-of-focus-upside-down-stomatella to me, ... I'll have to take your word on it.

Funky_Fish14 · #7 01-12-2007, 12:45 AM

I hope you dont think im trying to be rude..?

Here is a pic of what I am looking at, the black lines point to the 'seperations' that I see, and the pink lines just point to the whole outer edge of the body, I've had chitons 'roll up' in that fasion in my hand... it just looks like many I have seen:

Hopes this clarrifies? Maybe im way off the ball here..

Chris