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Abez
I was looking in my tank and I saw something that I had never seen before in my tank. it was like a snail without a shell or some kind of slug. It had kind of a round pulpy body and antennae and a mouth and moved like a snail. It looked like it was a purple/gray color with a white spot on its back.The only thing it had on its back was a small oval looking piece of what looked like a fragment/piece of shell. I'm wondering if its a bad thing or good thing to have and whether it could harm anything in my tank(toxic nudibranch).
thanks


I dont have a real camera so I tried to snap some quick cellphone pics.







k.tran
alien....
Jacobnano
Pretty sure it's a stomatella, but a better pic would help.
nick1912
velvet nudi?
Abez
looked at it again and its definitely purple and on its back is a darker purple spot and in that dark spot is the hard white stuff. the white part is not round kind like a fragment piece.
could it be a snail growing a shell?? its still hanging out in the zoanthids doing stuff...
rain-
Difficult to identify from the photos.

But if the white part really looks like it's hard shell, then either Scutus or Stomatella snail.
kurtl000
Looks like a black stomatella
Abez
Figured out what it is.....

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=scutus

its a Scutus sp.: Limpet.

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