caulepar predator snail

calvinci · #1 06/03/2005, 11:16 PM

Anyone know what snail is it? When it's head's out, it's got 2 tentacle on it's head, just like normal vegetable snail. It's eating my caulepar and I had remove many of them but they keep on coming back. It's in the refugium, how do I get rid of them, any predator that will take them off?

eleodes · #2 06/04/2005, 12:16 AM

it looks sort of like a Stomatella in shape.

you shouldn't kill them off. you should send them to Italy so they can eat the Caulerpa taxifolia.

eleodes · #3 06/04/2005, 01:58 AM

you know, whelks might eat them. i actually have a whelk in my tank as a matter of fact and i think that it has been eating my Stomatella. i should remove it, but haven't wanted to kill it. where do you live? i could mail it to you.

calvinci · #4 06/04/2005, 02:20 AM

shapes like stomatella shell, but it's not flat on it's back, it's standing up. I do have tons of stomatella in my main tank and refugium too. Too bad I am in Malaysia, thanks for your offer thou.

What's whelk, do you have a pix of it?

eleodes · #5 06/04/2005, 03:07 AM

Calvinci--my whelk looks like the ones at top of this thread. it's pretty big, about 3cm long.

kmk2307 · #6 06/05/2005, 10:52 PM

Check this link:
http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=3819

Look up Oxynoe.

Daemonfly · #7 06/06/2005, 02:23 AM

Man, if that thing only eats caulerpa, I'd LOVE to have that in my tank. Damn caulerpa is a weed.

Plantbrain · #8 06/06/2005, 03:12 AM

It would be great if it ate only Caulpera.

Regards,
Tom Barr

SuperNerd · #9 06/14/2005, 07:29 PM

Isn't it kinda good they are eating the caulerpa? Saves a lot of energy from ripping it out yourself!!

greenbean36191 · #10 06/14/2005, 07:43 PM

Is the shell bivalved like a clam, or just a single shell? If it's just one shell it's Oxynoe or Lobiger. If it's bivalved it's a Julid of some sort. In any case freshwater dipping the Caulerpa is probably the best way to get rid of them.

calvinci · #11 06/17/2005, 04:38 AM

it's only one shell, just like the land snail. Too bad the whole caulepar will turn white after it ate part of it.

calvinci · #12 06/17/2005, 04:41 AM

confirm it's Oxynoe viridis

ManEatingGuppy · #13 06/20/2005, 07:08 PM

sea hares eat calpernia

SuperNerd · #14 06/20/2005, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ManEatingGuppy
sea hares eat calpernia

what are "calpernia?"

ManEatingGuppy · #15 06/20/2005, 09:04 PM

caulerpa
i get confused