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03-26-2005, 05:07 AM
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learning
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Pasadena CA
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late nighters..
ive never seeen this guy in my tank before?
any one else seen these?
I tried to pull it off the rock..(didnt go so well)
should i have left it alone?
the 3rd pic is of a snail of some sort.. i have about 10-20 of those guys,, should i start plucking them out?
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Ro/di units are soooo coool, highly recommended
Dominic
much to learn..there is.. 
my tank
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03-26-2005, 06:56 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Andover, KS
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first 2 are stomatella... perfectly safe and good eaters! I have hundreds in my 29...do a search and you will see that they are good things!
hope that helps,
Jenni
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03-26-2005, 09:41 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Northern Virginia
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Not to spread panic ... but that third one looks like a box snail, at least like a picture I saw that was listed as a box snail....
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90gal reef - 200lb rock xenia anthalia buttons zoos star polyps cloves frogspawn torch all owned by one very angry orchid dotty back who is tolerating a dragon goby and hawk fish as roomie
220gal - 250lbs of rock cycling Amonia 0, Nitrites off the scale. Future home of an unknown number of Hippo Tangs.
110gal - acryilc empty but in the planning  Future hope of LPS
75gal - acrylic - Future froggie tank. CLS, double waterfall and misting system
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03-26-2005, 09:51 AM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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i think both are ok... the stomatas are fine and the ones with the nautalis/tiger type pattern are ok as far as i know, i have a few of them and they don't seem to bother anything, i had looked them up on wetwebmedia and they picture them and say they are harmless. i'll see if i can find the link to that.
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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03-26-2005, 10:02 AM
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Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -Plato
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03-26-2005, 10:05 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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Sundials will usually be found eat8ng your zoanthids, so if they are not doing well, that would be a huge indicator. Keep in mind that many juvie stages of other harmless genera of snails may look like the Sundials and Box snails, so getting a good key and/or description and looking at them with some magnification should be in order.
Of course, if you find them buried in the Zoanthids, go ahead and yank them out for the freezer (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE NEVER flush live snails, even marine snails in fresh water)
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -Plato
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03-26-2005, 10:06 AM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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here's the stomatella discussion and pic
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/snailidfaq5.htm
uggh...can't find that little snail there.....
they have so much stuff there, its hard to find things more than once sometimes
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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03-26-2005, 10:06 AM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Get more apinions cause I think Rachel is right and they not very nice with corals.I just saw that on Dr.Fosters site.
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03-26-2005, 10:07 AM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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Now if we could just find a spp. of Sundial that would eat anemonea cf. majano...
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -Plato
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03-26-2005, 10:08 AM
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Wants a Howitzer
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Maine
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sindials have a bumpy shell, right? i had one of those only once... the little ones i think are harmless have a smooth shell... its hard to tell if it is the same as what i am thinking... but if the shell is not smooth, than its a different snail than what i am guessing
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30 gallon (long)
one 7" Toadfish named Todd (Batrachomoeus trispinosus)- Tuxedo urchin eater
Assorted mushrooms, zoanthids, ricordea, leathers, a candy and brains...
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