Poly Clad Flatworm/ Pericelis sp

[reef life]

Anyone ever encounter one of these critters in your aquarium? And did you have trouble keeping snails?

 

[Mike&Terry]

DSC_5237 by terryl93, on Flickr

We found this specimen, along with another on the bottom of a rock in our refugium a while back. Never really noticed any problems with snails.

 

[reef life]

I seen one in my tank the other day and looked it up on internet. Info I found on them is they eat snails and clams. I buy 50 snails every several months and remove empty shells every water change. This could explain why they don't survive very long.

 

[impur]

A guy down the road from me has a small shop in his garage and had one just like that. We never did ID it. I don't think he lost any snails in that tank.

 

[mcarroll]

I seen one in my tank the other day and looked it up on internet. Info I found on them is they eat snails and clams. I buy 50 snails every several months and remove empty shells every water change. This could explain why they don't survive very long.

Obviously I'm not familiar with your tank, but the #1 reason most people lose their CUC like you describe is starvation. #1 by a wide margin in fact.

Could his be your case? (If you don't have quite a bit of excess algae in the tank for them, this is your problem.)

-Matt

 

[reef life]

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=250732. Found this before while searching info. I feed on the heavy side due to several large tangs and others,(Rods, Mysis, Reef snow, Marine snow, Oyster feast, etc..) So starvation could not be in the equation, lol.

 

[reef life]

http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=286064 Heres another person that had experienced probs with snails and clams. Glad I dont have a clam anymore.

 

[-Logzor]

Yes I have found them before, they will kill every snail in your tank. Luckily if you know how, they're pretty easy to extract.

Scoop them off of your glass at 3 A.M with a cut-off coke bottle. Make sure you're ready, once the room light turns on you have only a matter of seconds before it runs off.

Here is one I found:

 

[Mike&Terry]

The one I posted in the pic earlier was approx 4" and was found w/another one that was a bit smaller. There were no snails in our refugium, so I'm guessing they must eat other things as well. Other residents in that tank were a mated pair of yellow coral banded shrimp, a couple of peppermints an rbta, an ocelleris clown and quite a number of large and small bristle worms.