HELP!! SNAIL ID PLEASE

[lazycouch]

Hello. My chalice woke up looking like this overnight.. I found this snail next to it and was wondering if he could be the culprit?? the chalice is bare skeleton in those spots, no tissue left.. any ideas?

 

[duberii]

Could be a wentletrap snail in which case it probably is predatory

 

[lazycouch]

Could be a wentletrap snail in which case it probably is predatory

yup! looks just like that! do you think he could have gone for that chalice?

 

[duberii]

It certainly is possible- these guys are known for eating corals and anemones though they're rare hitchhikers

 

[KrisReef]

Interesting.
Looks like the shell may be worth $ to collectors?

 

[lazycouch]

It certainly is possible- these guys are known for eating corals and anemones though they're rare hitchhikers

does the tissue loss on the chalice look like the eating pattern of a snail? would you happen to know

 

[lazycouch]

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Interesting.
Looks like the shell may be worth $ to collectors?

lol it’s the size of like 2 grains of rice

 

[king aiptasia]

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lol it’s the size of like 2 grains of rice

rare things have value

 

[king aiptasia]

theres several hundreds of wentletrap snails, some of value, if you are gonna kill it instead of sumping, might as well keep the shell, interesting trophy if anyhing

 

[Jeffcb]

I found one just like that at the beach just the other day, It was dead.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Very cool. The word wentletrap means staircase. Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, territorial and preditory of snails, mollusks and gastropods.