New Pest!!!!!!!

[nanoreefer22]

Hmmmm dont know if anyone ever had one of these. But I found a snail of pretty good size, that enjoys feasting on my humilis polyps. Gonna have pics up in a few. Snails about an inch and im positive its the only one. Arghhh extra un-neccesary stress.
-Kris
Jennie, need another pest?? He's in a platic dish right now.

 

[Deanos]

Dont forget to give her some of the Humilis, so that the snail has something to eat in her tank

 

[nanoreefer22]

LoL...She has some already....lol

 

[nanoreefer22]

Pic....

 

[inkblue]

nice Shell!!

 

[Gmandese]

I'll put in my 46, my lunar wrasse will eat the snail, then I can use the shell for my hermits!

 

[jenniebutterfly]

haha kris, i would take it, but i have to go to ricky's later to pick up some coral. how about sticking it in your sump or other tank until i can come by

 

[nanoreefer22]

LoL...he was in the nano with the SPS...thats how i found out about him....he did a number on my humilis. I kept on seeing reccesion and couldnt figure out why til i saw him this morning eating away at the base...where ever he touched was no longer live.

Jen, I'll find a way to hold him I feel bad killing it off...

 

[ShaunW]

Kris, you should get a pic of it chewing on the SPS. Was it removing the SPS's tissue?

 

[nanoreefer22]

Shaun,
It was I'll take a pic of the condition the coral is in now. The humilis was the only coral it ever climbed onto. It would sit there for a long time, then i realized what it was doing. All the other coral in the tank are fine.
-Kris
PS. Pics to come in a few mins.

 

[Deanos]

Hmmmm :scratchch. My nassarius snails have a similiar shell.

They eat whatever is dead or dying in my tanks.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Pic for ya Shaun, Get more later...heading to Lowes...BTW it was taking off both polyps and tissue.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Hmmmm :scratchch. My nassarius snails have a similiar shell.

They eat whatever is dead or dying in my tanks.

Definately not dead or dying. The coral is polyping normally everywhere else.

 

[Deanos]

Is STN a possibility? Dying polyps would smell pretty good to a nass. sp. snail. But, in any case, if the snail doesn't bury itself in the sandbed, it's probably not a nassarius.

 

[nanoreefer22]

BTW, I've got nassarius snails too. Definately not the same snail.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Is STN a possibility? Dying polyps would smell pretty good to a nass. sp. snail. But, in any case, if the snail doesn't bury itself in the sandbed, it's probably not a nassarius.

Yea this one takes refuge on the coral itself or behind the rocks in a little crevice.
-Kris

 

[jhale]

it's a cool looking snail,
where do you think it came from?

 

[nanoreefer22]

Hmmmm I wonder....

 

[DRZL]

::Shudders::

I think thats some type of non-reef safe whelk, I would be careful putting in anyones tank, might chomp on other things, sort like a buffet.

I say nuke his lil arse:sgrin:
BWAA HHAAAA HAAAhAha

 

[DRZL]

or give it to a pesky trick or treater