Snail ID

marie · #1 06-07-2007, 03:17 AM

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 · #2 06-07-2007, 10:53 PM

Nobody has any ideas?

04scoobysti · #3 06-07-2007, 11:17 PM

some kind of conch?

King of the Sea · #4 06-08-2007, 03:02 AM

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

ReefJunkie · #5 06-08-2007, 05:10 AM

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 · #6 06-08-2007, 05:34 AM

A Tulip Snail perhaps? (Family Fasciolariidae).

marie · #7 06-08-2007, 06:25 AM

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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

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

niloc16 · #8 06-08-2007, 07:06 AM

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