What is this snail?

[zbrusko]

What is this? Looks somewhat like a freshwater ramshorn snail. About the size of a nickel. Maybe a little bigger. It is fused to my trumpet coral. There were two, and they appear to have killed the nearby heads.

 

[Danjoethepirate]

An exceptionally fat vermetid.

 

[zbrusko]

Hmm…that’s what I thought was possible, but the others in my tank are like the size of a thick sesame seed. I didn’t realize they got that big. Perhaps the things I think are vermatid snails are not?

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Yeah, that's a large Vermetid snail species; the big ones don't usually cause problems, but given where it was growing, I would not be surprised if it killed or at least irritated the heads.

Vermetids come in a surprisingly large range of sizes, so it's entirely possible that you have some small species in the tank as well.

 

[zbrusko]

Yeah, I was just watching some videos. I defiantly have a problem with the small ones I need to deal with.

 

[vetteguy53081]

What is this? Looks somewhat like a freshwater ramshorn snail. About the size of a nickel. Maybe a little bigger. It is fused to my trumpet coral. There were two, and they appear to have killed the nearby heads.

Nuisance vermetids and get rid of it before it build its calcareous housing

 

[zbrusko]

What is this? Looks somewhat like a freshwater ramshorn snail. About the size of a nickel. Maybe a little bigger. It is fused to my trumpet coral. There were two, and they appear to have killed the nearby heads.

Nuisance vermetids and get rid of it before it build its calcareous housing

I only saw 2, and both are out.