Snail ID please

[Ross B Reef'n]

This little guy is tiny! Just came in on a frogspawn frag. Always better to be safe than sorry. ID?

 

[DeniseAndy]

Take it out. Hard to tell, but looks similar to sundial snail that eat zoas. Just at least to get a better picture for better identification.

 

[Ross B Reef'n]

 

[DeniseAndy]

Hard to tell for me as I do not know my snails very well. However, I do know what the reef safe ones all generally look and that is not one I recognize. Not saying it is not fine, but I would keep it out. Still think it looks similar to sundial.
@ReefSquad

 

[Ross B Reef'n]

 

[Mike N]

It does look similar to sundial, but can't be 100% sure. A picture of the underside of the shell would help.
Either way, I would be cautious and toss it.

 

[DeniseAndy]

Good pictures. Not as flat as I would have though, but still not sure. Best to be safe and keep out. I had bought a reef safe snail once and it ate 2 clams before I got it out.

 

[js_marra]

look similar to a baby trochus snail to me, but also agree its prob best just to remove it

 

[vetteguy53081]

trochus snail

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

trochus snail

This, looks way to tall to be a sundial

 

[Ross B Reef'n]

Considering the source it came from, I'm very tempted to put it back in!

 

[Reefer Reboot]

Try looking at http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/hitchhiker.shtml, halfway down the page. I think Collonista snail.

 

[LardLad]

Thats a baby trochus snail. I know because I have about seven hundred of them packed into a 13.5 EVO.

On a similar note....

..... free baby trochus snails if you're in Kentucky

 

[Ross B Reef'n]

 

[AcroNem]

To me this does look like a Trochus

 

[DeniseAndy]

Glad you got some definite answers! good score I guess. I have not had many babies to identify. Good job fellow reefers!

 

[Ross B Reef'n]

Indeed, thank you for the responses everyone!

 

[C. Eymann]

Im not great with snail ID but Im not sure its a trochus.
Shell shape looks more like a collonista maybe?

 

[SHNICI]

Im not great with snail ID but Im not sure its a trochus.
Shell shape looks more like a collonista maybe?

shape like Collonista yes, but the colour on it isn't the same, Collonistas are more red/brown with much less white, this one is the same on reverse, have many of them (good CUC x), but can't recon it as Trochus, and don't have the same shape (isn't that flat) like the sundial - Heliacus spp. @Ross B Reef'n Check/search all the Heliacus SPP. and try to ident it with any of them, if don't have match at all, it's Trochus then x (baby Trochus then)

 

[Ross B Reef'n]

The "cone" part of the snail sticks out more to the side then up straight like a typical trochus.

This picture closely resembles the shells orientation when its moving.

Credit: https://coralrx.com/2018/12/28/sundial-snails/