id this pest ?

[ciaolong]

hey all

was looking over my stock when i realise my stylo was stn i thought i give it a closer look to find 2 snails on the infected part i was wonder if there such thing as snails that eat sps ? if you can see by the picture the polys of the that frag is there but all the flesh is gone.

thanks

[sps_addict]

Yes, there are snails that are known to get sps.
Mainly I have seen and had experience with them eating pocillopora.
I'll have to see if I have the pieces of the ones I found awhile back, but they looked nothing like those in the pic.

[ciaolong]

i first through they were abalone at the start well but now i dont know
i love to see some pictures of ones that do eat sps for future ref.
for now they not going bak into the main system or anywhere near sps >>

[CaptiveReef]

It looks like a species of coral eating Nudibranch, keep an eye on them.

CaptiveReef

[poknsnok]

looks like eggs on that red part too.. another GD pest?? Im going back to cichlids!!

[sps_addict]

Originally posted by ciaolong

i love to see some pictures of ones that do eat sps for future ref.
>>

They are called Drupella cornus, but there may be other species of snails that eat acropora, montipora, pocillopora, etc. I found the pics, but photobucket is down at the moment. Once that is working again I'll upload a pic.

From the image above, they do not appear to be a Drupella Cornus. It is definitely something else. It's difficult to identify from the pics, can you get a seperate shot of the culprit in a container without the stylo?

[sps_addict]

here are pics of the snails I took a while back that were eating the wild colony of pocillopora.

[ciaolong]

the one on th left looks like that one in the picture but the other one doesnt look the same. anyway they both gone but i having trouble with hyriods now >> ! thx for the pic steve