ClayTheSavageFraser Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 If you look closely at this picture you'll see a Ton of white dots. At an even closer inspection they look like baby turbo snails!! Has anyone else had this happen in their tank? I sold a rock form this tank that included an anemone and now his tank has the same thing going on!![/img] [/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchell Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Looks like Collonista snails. They are good little algae eaters and can breed quite rapidly, but it's still a bit odd that you have that many. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I think they are nerites. My tank looks like that at night as well. I've taken a few out to snap pics to be sure they were good guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islandoftiki Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 Had this happen in my freshwater tank... caused by overfeeding. Maybe the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impur Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I don't think so, i definitely do not overfeed my tank. I probably underfeed if anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVPaquatics Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I read in a book that they are stomatella snails. And not the kind that look like they have no shell. But they commented on how they look like baby turbos about half the size of a grain of rice. I had them blow up in my tank a few years back. I noticed it when my sixline passed. They came out at night in the hundreds but you could barely see one with the lights on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burningbaal Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I had an explosion a while back, I think most of them are now just calcium deposits on the back wall as they haven't really moved or grown for a month or so. But I do have a couple that I see move around and are bigger, maybe half the size of my little nass snails. kinda cool. My understanding is they'll multiply to fit the nutrient availability...probably why mine died back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVPaquatics Posted December 12, 2011 Share Posted December 12, 2011 I don't think so' date=' i definitely do not overfeed my tank. I probably underfeed if anything.[/quote'] They gotta eat something! Usually algae, but overfeeding leads to algae Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylaster Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Ive had trochus breed like crazy and of course stometellas. But never had astrea or turbos do it before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVPaquatics Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 Found the book. Its julian sprungs invertebrates book, with yellow cover. Page 104. Shows snails about 2-5mm just like in impur's pic. Says they are harmless nocturnal herbivores. So many times my clients think small things are babies of something they have. Asternias are baby chocolate chip stars and copepods are baby shrimp etc. Its usually much more likely in a reef tank that it is a different hitch hiking species rather than breeding things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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