HELP !!!!

2 weeks ago i added about 3 an a half kilos of live rock to my tank. and only in the last 2-3 days ive started to notice some type of snail creature, there are heaps of them , there about the same width as my coral sand and are a brownish colour.
will they harm my tank ?? wat should i do ??
plz reply asap
thanx :- oh_no

 

Hey they are snails, how bad can they be! ;D

Seriously, you should be fine. Unlike some crabs that will chomp on corals, I don't see a problem with snails.

They should stick to a diet of algae and detritus.

 

thanx
should there be so many of em but , i reckon that theres between 100-200 of em. im_pissed

 

wow. that is alot..

sounds like it is time to harvest. can you post a pic of these things?

 

What shape are the snails?  Are they a cone shape and white, or typical snail shape with some type of pattern on them?  If you give me a better description, I can most likely tell you what you've got.  Like Matt said, most snails are cool, a few of what you don't want are: flat snails with sundial pattern (eats zooanthids), all white rice size cone shape (eats clams and other snails) and most with a snorkels are bad (most, not all, many good snails for our DSB have snorkels).

 

theres not as many of em now
i dont know wats happened to em all, the clowns been
scroungin round the bottom a bit , so im a bit suss bout him, i think he could be eatin em ?? oh_no
they r brown , mainly a really light brown , an are pretty flat, they r about 1-2mm in diameter.

 

if there flat and brown is the body bigger than the shell? if so they could be stomatella varia these things are great they can multiply fast also one of the best alge eaters there is.

http://www.reefcorner.com/SpecimenSheets/stomatella_varia.htm

also check this faq sheet for hitchikers
http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/

 

nah karlas , not them ones
im not sure , they look very similar , but they r disapearing as quick as they came.
they have a kind of light brown stripe , an r very very tiny