baby nars. snails?updated w/pics of bug

[bigfoot]

i just foung two little white creatures in my tank i put them on front glass and looked at them w/ magnifying glass and they are baby snails dont really have a shell yet but they are growing and its spiraling outward anybody ever seen baby snails b4 do the parents give live birth or something? i have 0 live rock in the tank so im not sure where they came from

[gman0526]

If i'm not mistaken you mentioned you got a frag with some polyps not too long ago right? This is where they might have hitchhiked.
As far as an ID it's really hard to do w/o a picture. It could very well be nassarious or even pyramid snails or many others as a matter of fact. Sorry I can't be of much help.

[bigfoot]

had it b4 frag :)

[bigfoot]

im taking pics right now

[bigfoot]

cant get super close im using a cannon digital rebel EOS wont let me get super close up to it????????

[funkybozu]

stand a little further from the tank, it wont tsake the pic ceause theres no enough light getting in the lens.
btw i an invasion of the little bugs too

[bigfoot]

found this while googling


I started with 5 nassarius snails in the 65--never got around to adding more, because the engineer goby turns the sand a bit too well. Had to tear the tanks partially down 4-5 months after adding the nassarius, and discovered hundreds of them, throughout the system--some large enough to attract the attentions of the trigger.

[Sugar Magnolia]

Bigfoot, you said they ahd a spiral shape to them? You may be seing some spirorbidae worms growing on your glass.

Do they look like this?

[Sugar Magnolia]

Another one, a bit closer.

[bigfoot]

negaitve its a about 1/2 -3/4 of in inch in length will get some pics up tonight

[_Eric_]

spirorbid worms

[bigfoot]

here are some pics of my creature

[FishinInTheDark]

That's a stomatella snail. They are great algae eaters and a good hitchhiker. They do tend to reproduce in the home aquarium too.

[bigfoot]

yup when my buddy gave me his CC when he wnt to the army he must have been in his tank so i hope it reproduces