what is this?

[Jaws]

First Pic - is this is a baby snail?

Second Pic - is this a some kind of algae?

 

[Timbo]

Doesn't look like any algae. Does it move around at all? Maybe some kind of sea squirt? If it is moving it could be a nudibranch.

 

[Jaws]

first one move. second one doesn't

 

[Alexpescado]

First pic is a Stomatella Snail

 

[jabol]

1st: Stomatella Varia; they are herbivores
2nd: no clue

 

[Timbo]

I am guessing a squirt for the second one.

 

[Deanos]

First one could be stomatella varia.

 

[lazibonez]

Second one could be a Botryocladia skottsbergii.

 

[Jaws]

thanks guys. so i can leave the first one in the tank and pop the second one like the bubble algae. :biggrin:

 

[Josh]

I wouldn't pop the second one. Let it grow and see what it looks like. I think it is a tunicate of some sort.

 

[Timbo]

I agree with Josh. Let it go and see what it turns into.

 

[ScottK]

Second one could be a Botryocladia skottsbergii.

That's what it looks like to me, too.

 

[DevIouS]

Yep....

Botryocladia sp

 

[Awibrandy]

I could be wrong, but I don't think your suppose to pop bulb algea.

 

[meschaefer]

I could be wrong, but I don't think your suppose to pop bulb algea.

I always pop them. I could be wrong, but I figure that if you don't, it will continue to get larger until it pops/breaks on its own and releases even more spores into the tank than if it had been popped when it was smaller.

 

[sihaya]

That would be my guess too... first is Stomatella snail (cute little guys) and the second looks like the Botryocladia sp algae I have in my refugium. I don't know if you should pop them or not... I usually just strap it off with a razor.

 

[Jaws]

thanks again !