Snail ID...I think

JK901 · 05-20-2007, 01:08 PM

http://www.knightfamilyonline.com/nano/index.html

There are many pics of two different snails/gastropods. My inexperience must be showing now.

Any help on id'ing them would be great.

Joe

geekdafied · 05-20-2007, 01:40 PM

Well I know why you are not finding a pic of it, it is not a snail. Its a tropical abalone, common hitch hiker from the fiji area. I have tons and tons of them.

amcarrig · 05-20-2007, 04:16 PM

Stomatella snails

geekdafied · 05-20-2007, 04:17 PM

its an abalone, its not a stomatella, Ive had experts check them out. I thought they were stomatella too, but they are tropical abalones.

JK901 · 05-20-2007, 05:18 PM

Looking at some of the pics of the abalone's on the web it looks more like one of those. I have found three of them today. They are in my 6G nano and hopefully won't get big too fast.

Thanks for the help.

geekdafied · 05-20-2007, 08:48 PM

They will get to a maximum of like 2"s and reproduce often, thats why I have tons of them now. I did away with my predator fish, so all of my pods and snails are reproducing like rabbits.

ENGINE 41 · 09-29-2007, 10:17 AM

So they are not harmful. And will not over take the tank.

JK901 · 09-29-2007, 10:23 AM

My 3 have now become about 6. They haven't been a problem yet.

geekdafied · 09-29-2007, 10:47 AM

I have lots of them, had them for going on 3 yrs. Not a problem so far.