Are these barnacles?

[Lizamichelle1]

I have a crap ton of these things. They also jam up my klir roller filter. Are these barnacles? Either way, how can I get rid of them?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Not barnacles. Pics slightly blurry and with the angle hard to tell, but looks much like astrea snails. Do they move?

 

[Lizamichelle1]

Not barnacles. Pics slightly blurry and with the angle hard to tell, but looks much like astrea snails. Do they move?

After your reply, I looked some up and I know I have some that move but I have so many on the walls, on the rock structure, I dont know if those move at all lol. Would I need to just scrap them out?

 

[eggplantparrot]

limpets

 

[Tired]

They look like limpets to me. Do you ever see them on the glass? A limpet is like a little, flat, cone-shaped shell, with a snail foot inside. It's not a spiral shell like snails have. If empty, it looks like a dish.

Strange that you have so many. What on-purpose snails do you have? Maybe a little competition would help.

You should be able to kill them via crushing them, or scrape them out, yes. They're just snails, they won't come back from a few cells like some things can. They might just reproduce back to these numbers, though. It may be worth trying to just get them out of the filter area, plug up the filter entrances with floss so they can't get in, and go with that.

 

[Lizamichelle1]

They look like limpets to me. Do you ever see them on the glass? A limpet is like a little, flat, cone-shaped shell, with a snail foot inside. It's not a spiral shell like snails have. If empty, it looks like a dish.

Strange that you have so many. What on-purpose snails do you have? Maybe a little competition would help.

You should be able to kill them via crushing them, or scrape them out, yes. They're just snails, they won't come back from a few cells like some things can. They might just reproduce back to these numbers, though. It may be worth trying to just get them out of the filter area, plug up the filter entrances with floss so they can't get in, and go with that.

Ok. I took one out of the tank and compared it to one some on line and I believe they are limited. The pic I took isn't too clear and they are so small. But they are all over the place now. My daughter offered to remove them.

 

[vetteguy53081]

After your reply, I looked some up and I know I have some that move but I have so many on the walls, on the rock structure, I dont know if those move at all lol. Would I need to just scrap them out?

No. Im convinced they are reef safe algae eating limpets. If they are too many, you can place some in sump. Easiest removal is edge of a credit card