snail ID

[RussianBoy]

this one snail is new to me, I think I know most every snail I have, and this guy is new to me, never seen him before, his trunk thing is fairly long, and has stripes.... best pic I could get at the moment....i just know some of the guys that look like him can be predatory.

[beeker]

if you have any montipora caps or sps you might want to watch this snail closely as i had one that look very simliar to a nasarius snail only the shell wasn't white it was black and tan like the one in the pic

 

i noticed it attached to the underside of one of my caps and was stuck there for a week and then i decided to remove it, after i removed it there was a 3 inch pure white patch in the cap where the snail had been eating the flesh off

 

so i would remove it

[johnmaloney]

Pisania spp maybe, a bad member of the larger whelk family. But I am not sure, that is just a guess.

[SeeingGreen]

I know the ones like that which i had started to reproduce, and were killing off my snails. Looks like the predators, check Melev's distinction, but unless you remember a nas like that, its probably safer to remove it.

 

I had only a couple like that to start, now i pull all my rock every 2 months and am able to remove 5-10 in a 40B

[RussianBoy]

I know the ones like that which i had started to reproduce, and were killing off my snails. Looks like the predators, check Melev's distinction, but unless you remember a nas like that, its probably safer to remove it.

 

I had only a couple like that to start, now i pull all my rock every 2 months and am able to remove 5-10 in a 40B

hmmmm was does it eat

[Vyker]

if the "trunk thing" is white, its a nassarius snail and really good to have. If it is striped, it is a whelk and bad to have. Also, nassarius snails will bury themselves in the sand until they smell food spending most of the time underground. When you feed the tank, they all come up out of the sand. If this snail doesn't exhibit this behavior, it is a whelk.

[johnmaloney]

Definitely not a nassarius spp though, you can tell by the shape of the shell. (Nassarius species have blunt, rounded "fronts", whereas Pisania spp. taper off towards the front like in his picture). When iding a shell/snail shell shape will be the most telling thing.

[RussianBoy]

thanks guys, he uh "disappeared"