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07-22-2008, 07:37 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rio Linda, California
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|  snail...no shell?
While messing with my lighting and fuge tonite...I discovered this little fellow crawling on the fan...
Bad picture...but it is tiny, it is grenish in color...and has all the actions of a snail...what kind of snail I am asking...and where/how did it come from?  _________ 
Currently have 55 gallon in cycle ...began August 27th.
Tick tick tick tick tick....  | 
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07-22-2008, 07:43 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Myerstown, PA Age: 21
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that's not a very clear picture, I believe all snails have shells though so if there is no shell then its maybe some kind of worm or sea slug maybe...maybe hitchhiked in on some rock and just hasn't ventured out till now, might want to snag it and put it in quarantine till its Identified
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...AGA 46 gal. bowfront, coralife 192watt aqualight, koralia 4, aqua c remora w/maxijet 1200 and surface skim box,200watt heater, 40 pounds black aragonite reef sand, 50 lbs. LR...cycling at the moment...
...12 gal. Nano-Cube, heavily modded, becoming a QT/Hospital tank for the new 46 | 
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07-22-2008, 07:52 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Redmond, Or Age: 48
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Stomatella, good guys. Sort of like small abalone's. If you try to remove they can loose their tails like lizards in order to escape predators. | |
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07-22-2008, 08:08 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rio Linda, California
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KEWL !!
Thanx a bunch. | |
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07-22-2008, 08:13 PM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Redmond, Or Age: 48
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Check this out to see if it's him. Stomatella Varia | |
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07-22-2008, 08:47 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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I have lots of snails crawling around without shells. None have ever done me any harm. Pretty amazing if you ask me... _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | |
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07-23-2008, 06:08 AM
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| | Bubble Tip Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Chester, Pa Age: 22
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I am actually relieved and glad to have found this thread, i have just seen the same thing the other day. My brother saw it first and said you have some snails without any shells. I was like,no I don't. Then the next day I saw two of these guys crawling around. One on the glass and two on the lr. They just seemed to be eating the algae and not bothering anything else. So now I know what they are. thanks!
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Equipment: 55 gal, Remora Skimmer w/ maxi jet 1200 pump, 4x54w T5 lighting, 2 super actinics, 2 12,000K actinic white bulbs, 55+ lbs fiji live rock...
Inhabitants: Ocellaris Clownfish, Yellow Tailed Damsel, Six Line Wrasse, Yellow Watchman Goby, 3 Chromis, Crocea Clam,Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
Corals: Zoas, Yellow Fiji Leather, Pineapple Brain, Mushroom, Bubble, Frogspawn, Monti, GSP, Psammacora | |
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07-25-2008, 08:30 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Iowa Age: 32
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I am thinking Stomatella also. They usually roam the tank after lights out, check it out. You may have more.
As stated though, they are harmless. | |
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07-25-2008, 09:06 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
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they come in on liverock and also they lay eggs in algae so they can come in that way as well.they do reproduce so you will have more eventually.they have a half shell if you look closer.
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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