snail

Unsure of where to post within a forum.. What snails are recommended for tanks? As a good CUC. What snails eat hair algae? I have been trying to find more trochus snails as they can flip themselves over, but I haven't found any the last few months. I have 4 and they basically stay on the...

Hi! All of my Banded Trochus Snail seem to be suffering from paralysis. They have all fallen off the glass to the floor. Their foot shows that they are alive, but they seem to lack the enegy to attach back to glass and just lie there slowly diying/starving. I have pulled them all out of the...

Woke up this morning to this …. Plan is to leave the scoly alone for now but monitor closely … probably will eject the shell sooner or later Poor snail … If any of you guys have similar photos post !

Ok, So we’ve had a 50 gal for around 6 months and we’ve had a few snails in other tanks for close to 8 months. We started seeing baby snails popping up on the glass in our tank over the past few days, But we didn’t think much of it. Our skimmer had also been acting up recently (kind of like what...

Hello world, I discovered an unfamiliar snail in my tank and require assistance in identifying it, particularly to determine if it is beneficial or harmful. I have owned the tank for approximately four months and have never intentionally introduced any snails into it. The only possible way this...

At least three of these guys managed to hitchhike into my new nano tank on live rock. I will try to get better pictures tomorrow when the lights are back on, but they look like oyster drills to me. As far as I know, oyster drills are on the Atlantic side of FL and the rock came from the gulf...

Got this snail i saw in my tank, tank just started up and is currently in the ugly stage

At some point in the future, I would like to set up an aquarium with only invertebrates like snails, crabs, shrimp, brittle stars, and so on. (no fish or corals!) These are in my opinion, some of the most fascinating members of the aquarium hobby and reef ecosystems in general! So naturally I...

Could you please help me id this snail? It was caught off the turkish coast of the mediterranean sea. It seems to be a scavanger, they all gathered around a dead molly or meat but they don't seem to eat any algae. They are very inactive and somewhat nocturnal i guess. Sometimes they randomly...

We found this snail in our tank and cannot figure out what it is! We know it isn’t a bumble be snail. The body is white. We just really want to make sure it isn’t a harmful snail to our coral. It definitely hitchhiked on one of our newly bought coral frags. The store reps don’t know what it is...

I’ve just bought a pyramid algae snail (tectus snail) from my LFS, i put it in my tank and i’ve come to realize it has this weird looking thing on it shell. Whatever it is seems to retreat quickly back into a hole in the shell when i move the snail when it feels endangered. can anyone help me...

Just noticed that one of my Turbo Snails has a Bivalve growing on it. Does anybody know what type of Bivalve it is?

My snails were doing naughty things. My acro are all responding well. So proud tonight to watch things thriving.

Hi! I just started in the hobby, after water being cycled added 2 clown fish, 2 turbo snail, 2 bumblebee snails, a cleaner shrimp and recently added my first coral! A day ago I noticed this tiny snails, this is the best I could do taking video of it, so far I noticed to be 4 or 5 of them. I...

Pretty strong shell, and didn't move when i nudged with tweezers. Good bro or bad bro?

I'll keep this brief: in in dire need of some snails for my macroalgae tank, and I have had 0 luck finding some avaliable. My lfs screwed me over today and sold me a dead dove snail, and online shipping prices are unreasonably costly. If anyone in the Sacramento or Roseville area is has any...

Hello all! So about half a year ago I purchased some astrea snails, and have never had any issues with them, except for two of them would have some sort of string come off their shell. I’d worry that it was a vermitid snail, so I’d try to cover with with super glue, but they always seemed to...

I have a 16 gallon mixed reef tank that already has a pincushion urchin, fire shrimp, coco worms, rock flowers, and a couple of snails. I also have a pistol shrimp. Unfortunately the pistol shrimp never comes out during the day and loves to grab corals and pull them into its lair at night (even...

Hey, Does anyone have experience with weird acting snails? Got 3 new turbo snails around 3 weeks ago, but the weird thing is they have been in the exact same spot since I placed them down, two of them will not come out of its shell, the other one does come out but cant stick to anything, are...

Hi all, Currently dealing with such a frustrating phenomenon. Two months ago one of my trochus snails started flipping itself on purpose. Even if I put it right again, after 5 minutes it flipped itself upside down again. Apparently this has been reported but no real explanation/cause has been...

Hi All, can anyone know about, what kind of baby snail in my tank. I have lot of these snail and I'm not sure it is danger or not. I need to remove it or not? Is it reefsafe? can anyone advise me. Thanks in advance. I have attached clip for my reference

I have 5 giant turbo snail in a 135 gallon aquarium but need to medicate the tank with copper, will the snail eat my coral in a 20 gallon reef tank ?

Hi Guys can anyone help me with an ID of these baby snails which have appeared in my tank. I’ve seen approx 3 grazing on top of my rocks. I haven’t seen any snails laying eggs so not sure if it’s hitch hiked in on some frags. In the tank I have a couple of turbos, Astraeas and Babylon snails.

This is a whelk correct? (trap door & pattern on snout)