Teeny tiny trochus

[Susan Edwards]

Over the last few months, I've had at least 4-5 generations of baby trochus snails. The first batch are pretty much adult size now. A few days ago I spotted another tiny snail. Today, I saw a white speck on the glass and checked it out with my phone camera set to 8x's zoom and was surprised to see the tiniest trochus yet. It's literally a speck and has no dark shell--white from both sides. It has 2 antenae that I was able to see. I don't expect it to survive, although, from the population of my trochus snails, it's possible, esp. as there are no fish. So that's 5-6 batches of babies.

I have so many snails I've had to put seaweed strips in rubber banded to rocks. I put in 2 and the snails find them!

The one pic all you see is a white speck on the glass. And yes, that is an emerald crab shell on bottom. Hoping it's just the shell, that it molted....

 

[Ty Hamatake]

I had the same thing and was SUPER excited at first. Now they are literally everywhere. In the DT, overflow, every chamber of my sump, and even in my skimmer... lol just keep a close eye on where they end up. I recently had to take one out of my overflow drain pipe, if I didn't have a float switch controlling my return pump my tank would have overflowed.

 

[Susan Edwards]

@Ty Hamatake I will keep an eye out! I have an aio and no drain pipe, just teeth/gate into sump in back of tank, so I don't think they can do much more than clog the returns as the sump is kept at a specific level