Good or bad snail?

[loweryphil]

 

[ahiggins]

any way to take it out of the aquarium to get a pic?

 

[TheEngineer]

It reminds me of a pyramid snail because of how long it is, but it looks too big to be one. An unobstructed picture should help. How big is it?

 

[loweryphil]

Its the tiny spot on the shell. The shell is one of my hermits

 

[loweryphil]

The black and white blob thing on the shell is the snail that im unsure of

 

[ahiggins]

LOLOL that wee thing?!
I thought that was a hole in the shell.
Does it look to have a siphon on it?
Could be a baby zombie snail (nassarius)

 

[TheEngineer]

Ha! Oh...

Hard to say from the picture. Could be a baby nass or it could be a whelk. Can you get a closer picture?

 

[loweryphil]

LOLOL that wee thing?!
I thought that was a hole in the shell.
Does it look to have a siphon on it?
Could be a baby zombie snail (nassarius)

It has tentacles that appear to be feeling about.

 

[loweryphil]

Ha! Oh...

Hard to say from the picture. Could be a baby nass or it could be a whelk. Can you get a closer picture?

Not until tomorrow im afraid

 

[ahiggins]

eww...then I dont know. It looks like a zombie snail to me lol

 

[TheEngineer]

Complete guess at this point, but I'd lean more towards whelk. I've not known nassarius snails to hitch rides on shells like that. Whelks drill into the shells of snails and digest them from the inside. Their shells are pointed at the end and they have eyes on the end of their stalks (whatever they are called) as opposed to nassarius which don't have defined eyes on them.

 

[loweryphil]

eww...then I dont know. It looks like a zombie snail to me lol

Are they good or bad?

 

[Wiz]

Looks like a whelk. Bad. But haRd to be sure when it's small. I would either segregate or remove. Personally.

 

[Maritimer]

Are they good or bad?

"Zombie snail" is a nickname for Nassarius - good scavengers that rise from the sandbed like zombies when there's food in the water. Whelks are predatory, and remarkably effective for their size.

~Bruce

 

[ahiggins]

"Zombie snail" is a nickname for Nassarius - good scavengers that rise from the sandbed like zombies when there's food in the water. Whelks are predatory, and remarkably effective for their size.

~Bruce

Hahaha zombie snails I have a few of them but they always come out when I'm feeding corals which is annoying. I have to push them elsewhere until the scoly eats >.<