Do these snails eat zoas ?

[andre zaharchenya]

Some of my zoas look lien they have been eaten and I found these little snails in a tank.

 

[mfinn]

The pattern on the shell looks somewhat similar to the sundial snail which does eat zoanthids, it isn't imo.
Here is a picture I copied off of a google search of sundial snails.

 

[tastyfish]

Need a pic of the underside, but looks a little like a whelk. Can't remember the name, I'm sure someone else will be able to ID, but I believe they are snail predators.

Either that or a nassarius snail. Which will be fine.

 

[andre zaharchenya]

Need a pic of the underside, but looks a little like a whelk. Can't remember the name, I'm sure someone else will be able to ID, but I believe they are snail predators.

Either that or a nassarius snail. Which will be fine.

 

[mfinn]

The picture I posted is the zoanthid eating snail. Yours is not.

 

[tastyfish]

I'm certainly no expert, but I think he's a whelk. Someone who knows a lot more than me will probably be able to advise positively, I'm sure. (There's a black shelled snail commonly sold as nassarius, that isn't at all, it may be one of these).

 

[Halal Hotdog]

No idea about the snail, haha but that is a very clear picture of your fingerprint. If I ever need to unlock your phone...;)

 

[tastyfish]

The picture I posted is the zoanthid eating snail. Yours is not.

Yeah, he's certainly not a sundial snail as your pic is.

 

[andre zaharchenya]

No idea about the snail, haha but that is a very clear picture of your fingerprint. If I ever need to unlock your phone...;)

You would need a pic of

my iris for that lol

 

[tastyfish]

We have his fingerprint and his iris scan, mission is go! lol

 

[tangtime]

We have his fingerprint and his iris scan, mission is go! lol

Lol, ya and scary part is the technology is widely available to do just this, these days!

All you need is a good high quality pic and voila!