Identify?

exxcaliber2k · #1 12/31/2007, 07:04 PM

In my 12g nano I have LR that I got from Tye here in mansfield. I noticed originally only one of these little creatures, but now I can usually count a good 6 - 12 at any one time, more in the morning before my lights come on.

orangeish body with a blueish purple shell(flat).

there are three in this pic alone. two to the right of the snail and one above the snail.

sorry for the flash

zeppelin · #2 12/31/2007, 07:09 PM

Looks like little stomatella snails. Very beneficial snails. Good for the reef.

RokleM · #3 12/31/2007, 07:09 PM

Does the shell cover the entire body if it's irritated?

Look at limpet

zeppelin · #4 12/31/2007, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by exxcaliber2k

orangeish body with a blueish purple shell(flat).

The shell description is what led me to the stomatella.

Here's a pic. Doesn't show the irridescence in the shell, but does yours look like this?

ScottL4619 · #5 01/01/2008, 12:14 PM

Here are a couple of pics of the stomatella I found in my tank for another reference. I'm not sure what I'm looking at in your picture, can you get a close up. I always remove and take pictures of it in a plastic container with some water in it.

walmart · #6 01/01/2008, 12:21 PM

I must be blind, I dont see them in the original picture. I just woke up!

exxcaliber2k · #7 01/01/2008, 12:36 PM

that is exactly what they look like, except they have a more blue/purple shell.

I have migrated two from the 12g to the 110g.

anyone know how they reproduce. do they look like flat worms? I have little tiny orange "flat worms", I use flat worm exit and suck them up when they die and about 1-2 months later I get them again.

I'll take some pics of the little "flat worms", hopefully I can get a better pic.

zeppelin · #8 01/01/2008, 12:38 PM

I see 3 in the original pic. I've put red arrows where they are. They lay eggs.

exxcaliber2k · #9 01/01/2008, 03:24 PM

here is a pic of the "flat worms"

can anyone identifiy the crab in the pic. He was a freeloader when I bought the SPS. My emerald crab died shortly after, would this crab kill others?

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p...g/CRW_4729.jpg

and another request for identification, freeloader on some LR that I bought, started off as just a couple stalks, has grown steadily over the past couple months.

thanks again for everyones help!

I appreciate it.

Dustin

walmart · #10 01/01/2008, 03:48 PM

Thanks zeppelin for pointing it out.

szwab · #11 01/01/2008, 04:09 PM

looks like a leather of some type

Hormigaquatica · #12 01/01/2008, 04:11 PM

Your freeloader crab is harmless- its an Acropora crab. It will spend its entire life living in that coral, keeping it clean of debris. Beneficial.

ScottL4619 · #13 01/02/2008, 12:48 PM

That looks like a toadstool to me.

Bcollins111900 · #14 01/02/2008, 07:18 PM

yep it is a toadstool and those are flatworms.... hate them things.

exxcaliber2k · #15 01/02/2008, 09:12 PM

I have used flatworm exit 3 times now and the flatworms keep coming back. any other suggestions as to how to get rid of them?

thanks.

RokleM · #16 01/02/2008, 09:58 PM

Predator like a yellow coris, sixline (es the devil), leopard, etc.

zeppelin · #17 01/03/2008, 05:26 AM

I guess there's a possibility its a toadstool. Got a pic with the polyps closed up? I'm with szwab, thinking more capnella, or some other type of leather.

nrstype · #18 01/05/2008, 04:41 PM

Throwing my guestimate in the mix...... I think that thing looks like a bit baby red sea xenia (I have a bunch of it). Looks exactly like a small patch I thought I'd gotten rid of, but a bit of it was on a rock, now looking just like this, growing back again.

OK.. Guess we'll have to see when it grows out.