Snails- olives?

[Tired]

Found these on some sandy macroalgae from ReefCleaners. They have snouts like whelks. Olive snails, maybe? Teeny nassarius of some sort?

 

[blaxsun]

They could be an olive snails. Not sure about nassarius as the shell looks a bit different.

 

[thatone08]

Could be nassarius, or a conch, or an olive snail. As long as the snout doesn’t look tattooed it’s probably not a whelk.

 

[Tired]

I put them in my experimental “will any of these macros grow in a fishbowl” bowl. If they don’t starve in there, I’ll have learned they’re herbivores or detritivores.

 

[SHNICI]

Olive snails I think. Have plenty of them and they're completely safe to me. Yes, the snouts look like tattooed, but they never bother any of the corals. all the time grazing on the algae in my tank

 

[Tired]

Olive snails are predators. They feed on carrion, clams, and other snails.

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

Olive snails. She’ll is wrong for nassarius and they lack the trapdoor of a whelk that I can see. They’re only predatory to the same extent as nassarius that I’ve seen. Meaning they’ll eat snails dying or that can’t flip over

 

[SHNICI]

Olive snails are predators. They feed on carrion, clams, and other snails.

never heard about that, have a tank full with them and they graze only algae in mine

Olive snails. She’ll is wrong for nassarius and they lack the trapdoor of a whelk that I can see. They’re only predatory to the same extent as nassarius that I’ve seen. Meaning they’ll eat snails dying or that can’t flip over

have nazarius, trochus and turbo snails, none of them look missing yet

OP, keep an eye on it, that's it. Put in the separate container another algae (if you have hair alg or another), and watch the what the snail will eat, as particular grazers will go after few alg SPs only

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

never heard about that, have a tank full with them and they graze only algae in mine


have nazarius, trochus and turbo snails, none of them look missing yet

OP, keep an eye on it, that's it. Put in the separate container another algae (if you have hair alg or another), and watch the what the snail will eat, as particular grazers will go after few alg SPs only

Far as I know they won’t straight up target anything. I mean nassarius will scavenge an already dead snail or eat one that’s dying because it can’t flip over. Same principle here

 

[SHNICI]

@Tired
Have a look in there: --> List <--
Look from the photos all the SP in family:"BUCCINIDAE"and the rest with "BUCCINIDAE ..... "etc names, I'm sure I have seen your one there.

 

[Tired]

Do olive snails eat Nassarius snails?

I brought home about 20 nassarius vibex the other day, the lights were off by the time i finished acclimating them but when I added them I could have...

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Olive Snail ??

I ordered some different types of live rock online. After talking to the guy, he was giving me some free stuff to try out in my tank(rock etc). He said he is sending an olive snail as they are veracious algae and waste eaters. I can't find a whole lot of info on them, but some of what I'm...

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Doesn't sound like olive snails are algae-eaters.

I have a bowl of macros that I put as an experiment; fishbowl, sunlight, fertilizer. I want to see if I can grow ulva or this weird ultra-thin chaeto-esque algae in just a bowl, to feed my mime crabs and amphipods. I plonked those snails in there. If they live awhile, we'll know they eat algae, detritus, and/or macros.

That's a cool snail database. I'll have to look at it when I don't have a headache. My concern is whether these guys are babies that will have a different shell shape as adults.

 

[SHNICI]

Do olive snails eat Nassarius snails?

I brought home about 20 nassarius vibex the other day, the lights were off by the time i finished acclimating them but when I added them I could have...

www.3reef.com

Olive Snail ??

I ordered some different types of live rock online. After talking to the guy, he was giving me some free stuff to try out in my tank(rock etc). He said he is sending an olive snail as they are veracious algae and waste eaters. I can't find a whole lot of info on them, but some of what I'm...

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Anyone Know Anything About Olive Snails? - Reef Central Online Community

Anyone Know Anything About Olive Snails? Other Invertebrates

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Doesn't sound like olive snails are algae-eaters.

I have a bowl of macros that I put as an experiment; fishbowl, sunlight, fertilizer. I want to see if I can grow ulva or this weird ultra-thin chaeto-esque algae in just a bowl, to feed my mime crabs and amphipods. I plonked those snails in there. If they live awhile, we'll know they eat algae, detritus, and/or macros.

That's a cool snail database. I'll have to look at it when I don't have a headache. My concern is whether these guys are babies that will have a different shell shape as adults.

mine are near 1cm 1/2inch long (the shells). Just you can be lost on that DB, it's really good, spend days watching and trying to member the shells in case I find any of the odd snails.

 

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That is a Greedy Dove Snail, (Costoanachis avara) it is an herbivore. We have them in our Flame Algae and Gracilaria tanks they like to stay on macroalgae and do a decent job cleaning them. We usually keep them in house, sorry one hitchhiked.

 

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It stays that size by the way, that is an adult.

 

[Tired]

Oh, neat! I'll have to fish them out of the bowl I put them in. I bought some of the black and white dove snails from y'all, and I'll definitely take another type of dove snail. Will this type breed?