Baby snail invasion, what to do

[FDeLoncker]

I had recently purchased 3 turbo snails as well as a sebae anenome at the same store and time, the very first night (about 2 weeks ago) i had an invasion of little white things, i believed they were snails after further investigation and i was right, the eggs had to have come out of the anenome upon acclimation but they are getting bigger quick, there is one that is much larger than the rest of them and looks nothing like them, it is flatter and more "pile of sugar like"with a little purple/pink hint, i dont see antennas like the snails have but it does move VERY slowly. what is it? t :?: he first day there was at least 1 VERY small green bug like thing crawling along the glass very very fast. i took it out immediately but left the snails there because i thought it was kind of cool. the first night i counted 50, the next i only counted like 26, and my cleaner wrasse that i thought was eating them is now dead, everything else is fine but there are now at least officially (counted)93 baby snails and probably more. what should i do?

 

[Anonymous]

leave 'em be for now.

i have many small snails in my tank and once this tank is established i probably won't add anymore snails and let the little guys do the work.
there are some predatory snails that feed on coral but i wouldn't be too concerned as of yet.

 

[shellshocked]

FD,
I agree with Podman - let them go. I have a lot of baby snails (astrea? I think) and very few actually make to be any size larger than maybe an 1/8 of an inch. However a few do survive - enjoy it.

 

[jandree22]

i just had a nassarius snail outbreak about a few weeks ago

 

[Anonymous]

I too have well over a hundred little snails in my 125 and none of them seem to do any harm. They are mainly nocturnal and steer clear of any of the corals and clams. I say keep them unless they appear to harm your inverts.

 

[FDeLoncker]

thank you all for your replies, they are nocturnal (so far) they go away as soon as the light is on and ive never seen them on any of my corals/liverock. if anyone would like to adopt them in a few months they are yours though. frank

 

[Anonymous]

Without a picture it's tough to say for sure but from your description ( piles of sugar ) these are not snails but animals of the class Gastropoda: subclass Prosobranchia: Family Fissurellidae or common Limpets. They are marvelous little algae eaters and multiply fairly rapidly and normally disappear just as fast from being preyed upon by other inhabitants of the tank.

Regards,
David Mohr

 

[FDeLoncker]

all of the little guys in my tank look like little snails except for the 1 "sugar pile guy" i looked at some limpet pictures and would like to say that it is indeed one of those species. thank you for your help, i have never heard of limpets before, are they reef safe? thanks again to all for your help

Frank