What’s This Growth on Trochus Shell?

[RickLRMS]

Any thoughts on what this might be growing on my Trochus‘s shell? Video link

 

[vetteguy53081]

It’s bubble algae.
Take snail out and over the sink, pop with toothpick and scrape away remainder with toothpick and rinse with tank water and return to display

 

[RickLRMS]

It’s bubble algae.

Thanks for the reply. I thought that might be bubble algae inside whatever the growth is, but I didn’t think bubble algae would be able to build a shell around itself. That weird extra shell that the “bubble algae“ is in made me think it might not be bubble algae. Maybe I can figure out what the growth is on it when I remove the bubble algae.

 

[RickLRMS]

Just trying something to see if the video embeds so I know how to do it in the future.



Edit: And now I know. Edit2: You simply copy the youtube html address and paste into the forum post, the forum software does the rest.