reefgeek84 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I saw this today...I thought it was really interesting...Notice the Cerith small snail shells on the underside of my Astraea. Not the best pic, but I was out the door and wanted to get a shot in case it moved and I never saw it again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewie Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Careful! Those look like the dreaded pyramidellid snails. http://www.reefland.com/rho/2006/05/identify_rissoid_pyramidellid_snails.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefgeek84 Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 Wow, thank you...I did some checking with a magnafining glass and I am pretty sure they are the rossiod snails...but this was very good to know...I dodged a bullet there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I thought the same thing chewie. I thought it odd they would be on the astrea snail though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefgeek84 Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 I thought the same thing chewie. I thought it odd they would be on the astrea snail though. Yeah, I think it is luck of the draw on that one...I checked all other astreas (about 30 I could find) and nothing...I will be keeping an eye and removing them just in case...but I truly believe they are the harmless ones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewie Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 They'll pester your snails to death. It will take some time but it will happen. It took me about 3 months to eradicate them from my old system. I had to pull snails and scrub them in a separate container and discard the water. They also bothered my clams, even though they never got to proportions big enough to harm them, as I cleaned them about 2x a week. You definitely want to get rid of them if they're like the ones I had. Mine looked just like the ones you posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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