Is this a whelch snail

[jelly]

Need help to Identify these snails. I think there whelch snails but I'm not sure.

 

[kbourque]

Looks like a nassarius to me but never seen one with the stripes on the tube

 

[jelly]

Whelk snails look like a nassarius snail. But there are differences this guy don't have the foot that the rest of my nassarius have. And I never see them on the sand really. Mostly on the rocks and glass.

 

[kbourque]

After looking at picks of whelks I think your right.

 

[jelly]

Thanks for the second opinion it's what I needed. Don't want them eating my clam

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Could you maybe get a picture of it flipped over and withdrawn? The answer would be a lot more definitive then. The top as shown in your picture is important, but the most important characteristics to IDing are on the other side.

 

[jelly]

 

[TheEngineer]

Looks like a whelk to me. You can distinguish by the "tattoo" on the flesh of it. There's also something about the eyes, if memory serves. @Lionfish Lair should know for sure.

 

[jelly]

Ok

 

[Lionfish Lair]

That's a whelk.

 

[jelly]

How can you tell from the bottom side. What is it your looking st

 

[Lionfish Lair]

The shape of his opening and operculum. He does have a "door" right? In that last pic, it looks to have it's operculum closed? If there is no "door" there, I'm incorrect and it's not a whelk despite it having the other features of one.

 

[jelly]

It had a door

 

[Lionfish Lair]

How many do you have?

 

[jelly]

Pulled about 12 out of my sump. Have to seen them in the main tank but I'm keep my eyes open for them

 

[jelly]

Haven't

 

[jelly]

Ant tips on how to rid my tank of them other then finding randomly

 

[Lionfish Lair]

It's not a huge deal. They'll eat other snails. These were hitchhikers? Not a mistaken identify buy?

 

[jelly]

I don't know how I got them. This tank as only been up for a yearor so and it used dry rock. So they had to be hitch hiker from corals or mixed in with snails when I bought some. I never bought these

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Ant tips on how to rid my tank of them other then finding randomly

Not really. Anything that would eat them, would eat more desirable snails as well. A lot of people have them in their tank and they don't know, so they don't kill off everything so that you would notice. Put some food in the tank, that should bring them out. I was just feeding my nassarius by hand and all I do is stick my hand in there with some salmon and they come running. I like feeling them take the food from me. I've had my snails a long time, some over 10 years.... I'm kinnda attached. LOL!