Can someone ID this please?

[Zodem]

I just picked up a star pileup from the local LFS and this weird black looking thing is on the bottom. It looks like a turtle shell with black tentacle things coming out of it. Could someone please ID it?

 

[Zodem]

Just noticed whatever it is moves.

 

[StartingATank]

Kinda looks like a stometella snail

 

[Zodem]

Kinda looks like a stometella snail

Looks like it according to google thanks.

 

[StartingATank]

No problem, but I do have a few problems with my theory. In the last pic, it had pretty long eyes or sensors, which stometellas don't really have. Also, it has a dark colored shell, which could be Coraline algae, but usually their shells are purple or light colored. Finally, the size of its shell compared to the snail is a little off, but it still could be. But, make sure you have plenty of algae or the snail could starve. I bought 3 stometellas when I was having a really bad GHA bloom, but then within around 3 days all the algae was gone.

 

[Zodem]

Anyone have any other ideas of what it is?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Kinda looks like a stometella snail

Yeah, that's a black Stomatella snail - good CUC. The antennae can be pretty long on these guys (the eyestalks on Stomatellas are really short).

For examples, the link below has some photos showing the eyes and antennae pretty clearly:

Stomatellids! | Blenny Watcher

With their frilly mantles, long tentacles and curvy, folding neck lobes stomatellids, marine mollusks in the family Trochidae (top snails), are pretty animals.

www.blennywatcher.com

 

[Zodem]

Kinda looks like a stometella snail

Yeah, that's a black Stomatella snail - good CUC. The antennae can be pretty long on these guys (the eyestalks on Stomatellas are really short).

For examples, the link below has some photos showing the eyes and antennae pretty clearly:

Stomatellids! | Blenny Watcher

With their frilly mantles, long tentacles and curvy, folding neck lobes stomatellids, marine mollusks in the family Trochidae (top snails), are pretty animals.

www.blennywatcher.com

Thank you very much!