Limpets? Id request

mkoop · Mar 10, 2014

Is anyone able to identify what these are? They look like limpets to me possibly? Two larges ones on one of the new astrea snails I got...

Reefing Madness · Mar 10, 2014

Can't really tell what Im looking at, but I don't see any Limpets in there.

Tahoe61 · Mar 10, 2014

Slipper Limpets, parasitic to snails. Please compare images, there is not enough detail to make the item out for certain.

mkoop · Mar 11, 2014

Tahoe61 said:
Slipper Limpets, parasitic to snails. Please compare images, there is not enough detail to make the item out for certain.

Yeah you are right on that's exactly what they are.

Whys Alives · Mar 11, 2014

Sure does look like a regular old Margarita shell to me. How either of you ascertained Slipper Limpets is beyond imagining.

Tahoe61 · Mar 11, 2014

You can see it on the shell.

mkoop · Mar 11, 2014

Thanks for pointing it out for me Tahoe, with they shape it was really difficult to get any better picture. The second one is right above that one lining the left side. I tossed him and a few others with them from my new snail order into a temporary 20g hospital tank that hasn't had copper in it to clean while I do some more research.