What is this?

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Sorry about glass algae, lights are off and flashlight really shows all that glass algae off lol.

Comes into focus properly near the end

WheatToast · Jul 10, 2022

The video link is not working. Do you have any screenshots/images or a link to a YouTube video?

EricR · Jul 10, 2022

Beginning of video flew by too fast to see the back but lookup stomatella snail and see if that's it.
Better pics of the top would help.

Goaway · Jul 10, 2022

Looks like stomatta with that mouth and large foot. Big keeper.

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Mibu said:
Looks like stomatta with that mouth and large foot. Big keeper.

Yes it seems that way. I found some really small snails on the glass a while ago people suggested could be those. Looks like they grew up lol?

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

EricR said:
Beginning of video flew by too fast to see the back but lookup stomatella snail and see if that's it.
Better pics of the top would help.

Yep! That’s it, has the same shape body and colouring almost looks more like a slug than a snail

Goaway · Jul 10, 2022

laezur said:
Yes it seems that way. I found some really small snails on the glass a while ago people suggested could be those. Looks like they grew up lol?

This small one looks like a collonista snail. They don't get very big at all.

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Mibu said:
This small one looks like a collonista snail. They don't get very big at all.

Oh right, cool! Yeah Google agrees. Awesome, so many snail species in my tank no idea where they’ve all come from haha

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Mibu said:
This small one looks like a collonista snail. They don't get very big at all.

@EricR

Here’s a screen grab of the top of the snail from the video, can see the colouration. Best I could do for now, it’s gone back into hiding.

Goaway · Jul 10, 2022

laezur said:
@EricR

Here’s a screen grab of the top of the snail from the video, can see the colouration. Best I could do for now, it’s gone back into hiding.

I need a clear pic is possible. Fuzzy foot could be abalone. Also shell texture.

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Mibu said:
I need a clear pic is possible. Fuzzy foot could be abalone. Also shell texture.

I put the lights on white for a minute and saw all sorts of critters I’ve not seen in there before. I’ll send pictures

Last pic are those starfish or hydroids? Also in the video

Goaway · Jul 10, 2022

laezur said:
I put the lights on white for a minute and saw all sorts of critters I’ve not seen in there before. I’ll send pictures

Last pic are those starfish or hydroids? Also in the video

Amphipods crawling on glass. Stomatella top pic. Those are starfish. Anyway you can pull one from tank to get a close up?

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Mibu said:
Amphipods crawling on glass. Stomatella top pic. Those are starfish. Anyway you can pull one from tank to get a close up?

Hmm not as of right now, but I doubt they will move much so I can take one out in the morning, why what are you thinking they are? Seems to be a bloom of all sorts of new creatures, I'm hoping that's a good sign of maturity. Those small white things that I have literally hundreds of on the back panel are snails too, correct?

Goaway · Jul 10, 2022

laezur said:
Hmm not as of right now, but I doubt they will move much so I can take one out in the morning, why what are you thinking they are? Seems to be a bloom of all sorts of new creatures, I'm hoping that's a good sign of maturity. Those small white things that I have literally hundreds of on the back panel are snails too, correct?

Color form to id if safe or pest. Not all of them are reef friendly. If you don't have coral right now, you're safe.

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Mibu said:
Color form to id if safe or pest. Not all of them are reef friendly. If you don't have coral right now, you're safe.

Ah shoot okay I’ll pull one out when I’m done with what I’m doing in about 30 mins if you’re available then

Tired · Jul 10, 2022

The small white things are spirobids. Stationary animals- I forget if they're snails or worms. Same difference, in this case. They don't move, they filter-feed, they stay tiny, they surge in new but biodiverse tanks and then fade out to some extent.

laezur · Jul 10, 2022

Mibu said:
Color form to id if safe or pest. Not all of them are reef friendly. If you don't have coral right now, you're safe.

Okay so getting the camera to focus on this thing was near impossible.

I pulled out what looks like a single leg (already seperate from the main body) which is my assumption on how they reproduce. I didn’t pull the main body out in case it’s a good guy and I don’t want to get rid of it if there aren’t anymore.

Ita brown in colour outside of the tank, by the looks of it.

vetteguy53081 · Jul 10, 2022

laezur said:
Okay so getting the camera to focus on this thing was near impossible.

I pulled out what looks like a single leg (already seperate from the main body) which is my assumption on how they reproduce. I didn’t pull the main body out in case it’s a good guy and I don’t want to get rid of it if there aren’t anymore.

Ita brown in colour outside of the tank, by the looks of it.

Stomatella snail and asterina star