found these gut under a rock in a few of my tanks.there about 1/4" long.they don't seem to bother any thing.just wondering if any body seen them or now any thing about them.





thank you.

yup, chiton. nice find! they just eat algae.

My bro has one, I am pretty sure they only eat coraline, hence the color.

That's pretty sweet.

some eat coralline algae, some eat only fleshier algae...it depends. having a chiton is like having a snail, species matters etc... usually if they have purple or pink coloring the eat coralline, their color is camoflauge. It is cool though and coralline grows fast, so I would keep it.

thanks.i know that chitons are good i just wanted to make sure that this kind was good.

i guess it just depends then how much you value coralline. i wouldn't mind losing some coralline for that guy, cool looking critter. here is another cool looking chiton:
http://pt-lobos.com/images/lined_chiton_2c.jpg


as far as identifying your species..what color is the foot? what scale are we looking at? do you believe this chiton to be mature?

that is one pimpin awsome chtion I'm jealous, congrats on the HH.


YO JOHN....START STOCKING MORE CHITONS PLEASE

i don't care about the coralline the chitons are way cooler.and the one you showed a pic of is amazing.

I'll try to get you a pic of the foot tomorrow.it about 1/4'' long i think its mature i have never seen them any bigger and there at lest 12 of them in my 75g.

Awesome.

I've had grey chittons for a while and just noticed the same color chitton they are a very nice critter to have

i had a red one at one point that lived on the red coralline in my tank. really cool critter.

yeah I agree your chiton > than coralline. I had a book on them somewhere, but I couldn't find it....will keep looking though. I have a storage space filled with books in boxes and I should have removed all the field guides but it was a long moving day and well...at least they didn't end up at the curb at that point!

A lot of the cooler looking chitons are temperate or arctic, not saying yours is (mnherper), but that is what is going on with a lot of them.

Yes, there are some really cool chitons up here by me

John, you should stock more chitons. I wouldn't mind buying one that ate coraline haha

yep, definitely some cool inverts in the Pac NW.

COOOOOL!!!!!

Deftly avoiding the "Stock more chiton" commentary

- mnherper - ok so I found the field guide to chitons in florida and some locations in the west indies. yours isnt from there, or if it is, it would have to be extremely rare, it is a pretty good field guide. (well I looke dintwo actually, and it wasn't in either). pacific species probably. that book i am afraid is probably lost to storage, but maybe narrowing the range will/may help you out.