Got a tricky one for you guys

[ItouchedThebutt]

Bear with me, i do t have a photo even though i know how important it is but unfortunately ive only seen this critter twice and the second time he fell out of .y tweezers upon removal and fell deep in the rocks. What im looking atappears to be a snail the size of a pea, circle shell with black and white stripes. Idk how it got in there because i have no snails that reproduce in my tank and never added jt deliberately. Sound familiar to anyone?

 

[Pelagic One]

If it’s a bumble bee snail, it may have gotten into your tank as an egg attached to a frag or piece of rock. No worries as they are said to be extremely difficult to breed in a home aquarium. They are carnivores that eat detritus and leftover food from the sand bed and rock work. And yes, they’re considered reef-friendly.

We’ve got several bumble bee snails in our 100g tank, and they’ve left our frags alone except for the occasional nibble at frag plugs.

 

[reef lover]

Collinistra (spelling?) Snails...they'e good

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

It doesnt quite look like that. Its pure white and black. With a perfect circle shell.. Talking about the bumblebee snail that is

 

[bw777]

stomatella?

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

stomatella?

No this has a solid shell.. It almost looks like a collonista snail. Thats the closest ive seen so far. I just dont know where a snail apendix is to look at other kinds.

 

[BigJim]

maybe a small caribbean nerite snail.

 

[Jose Mayo]

No this has a solid shell.. It almost looks like a collonista snail. Thats the closest ive seen so far. I just dont know where a snail apendix is to look at other kinds.

Try this catalog: http://www.marinespecies.org/photogallery.php?album=702

Regards

 

[NY_Caveman]

Maybe these will help:

https://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhikers-guide/

http://thefragtank.ca/community/threads/sticky-hitchhiker-ids.6435/

 

[cloak]

+1 Collonista snail.

These harmless grazers often hitchhike there way into our tanks via live rock, corals etc. If conditions are right they can reproduce to plague like proportions too.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Maybe a sundial snail? Its hard to ID without a picture..

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

Maybe a sundial snail? Its hard to ID without a picture..

For sure i know. But i messed up and dropped him back in. But defiently not that

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

Found one in my friends nano tank that's smaller but really similar to mine in my tank.

 

[Maritimer]

Do you have Trochus?

I've heard of them reproducing in home aquaria . . .

~Bruce

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

No. Neither of us do. That and trochus have a way different shell pattern.

 

[CNDReef]

That looks kinda like a baby turbo snail

 

[CNDReef]

These are colonista

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

These are colonista

Those look so similar. You have pictures of baby turbo snails?

 

[ItouchedThebutt]

Found this on Google this looks exactly like it.

 

[CNDReef]

Found this as baby turbo snails