asn Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 Ok, don't laugh. I watched this Grey slug/snail (about 1/2 the size of a penny) thing come out of a hole in one of my rocks move up the rock, and act like it was blowing it's nose. It did this about 6-8 times, and each time a bunch of junk came out into the water. I tried to take a picture, but didn't have much luck. Anyone know what this is??? I also have a rock with a small hole in it. Every once in a while a bunch of slimy junk comes out of that hole (like a worm is expelling it's waist). It spews out a bunch of stuff, and I'm wondering what it will do to my bio load. Anyone know that this could be? Thanks Link to comment
asn Posted July 12, 2004 Author Share Posted July 12, 2004 it kinda looks like that but, the shell is flatter and maybe a little smaller. Now what was the stuff that was coming out of it, and why did it look like it was sneezing? thanks Link to comment
Carinya Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 Worm in the hole with the stringy junk is a vermitid gastropod. http://www.aquarium.net/0897/0897_8.shtml Flat-shelled snail sounds like stomatella varia as well. Never saw one blow it's nose though... Carinya Link to comment
kc5qvz Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 My tank has been up for 3 months now and one of those snail slug things came out for the first time about 2 weeks ago mine looks kinda like the pic above but the shell has like little thorns around the outer rim and is a grayish color with white speckels? ??? I just happen to be looking in the tank the first time it came out of the rock I was freeking and yelled for my wife to come look at it. It came out for a while then went back in and stayed in there for 2 or 3 days then came out and has stayed out cence and now I have a small one just like it too:) they clean the glass better than the other snails I have so I like haveing them around but would like to know what they are??? I gaze at my tank for about 15 mins at least every day when I get home from work and its never the same something has moved or something new has poped up or out as it were I should of got rid of the fresh water tanks long ago;) Link to comment
Hwarang Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 Blowing it's nose was puttin milt in the water, I think. My stomatellas do that on occassion. Link to comment
Tballa Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 I just got back from my LFS. I got a piece of rock that was about a 1/4lb, and I got 4 of them. Three of them are whitish, and one is brownish. Do they eat algae? Link to comment
reef hugger Posted July 12, 2004 Share Posted July 12, 2004 They are good algea eaters. About "blowing it's nose", they are board cast spawners I believe, so what you saw was it releasing eggs or sperm in to the water column. Link to comment
asn Posted July 12, 2004 Author Share Posted July 12, 2004 are they asexual? or do they need a female and a male to spawn? Link to comment
asn Posted August 10, 2004 Author Share Posted August 10, 2004 I looked in the tank yesterday, and saw it again, but this time 4 of them were doing it. 2 of them looked like they were blowing out eggs, and the other 2 were blowing out sperm. Weird and Cool at the same time Link to comment
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