anyone know what would eat sundial snails?

fisherson

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Anyone know a good way to get rid of sundial snails...not sure if it's them yet cause i can't get anyone to reply to my post about them but if they are anyone know how to get rid of them if there's like 30 that are visible unknown how many are actually there.
 

mrdc

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Also called boxsnails. Removing by hand is good since they don't reproduce fast.
 

nm reef

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I'm sure there are predators that would consume them...along with other snails/crabs/shrimp etc.
Why not just manually remove them? I have purchased zoo colonies in the past that had a few and after a Lugols dip and manual removal there were never no lingering problems. I have seen a couple on zoo colonies in my display and immediately remove them whenever I see them. I've never seen a need to introduce a predator specifically to consume them.
 

fisherson

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see the thing is...i don't have any corals in this tank...i got a handful of cheato about a month ago and i didn't see anything inside the algea....i searched through it pretty good..suddenly there everywhere. The cheato is in a breeder net because my refugium isn't set up yet...
I kinda think there baby astrea snails because the don't have the checker'd look like the sundials in the hitchhikers guide.
Are astrea/turbo snails white when there small? with small brown stripes?
The shell also looks smoother than the sundails..unless the picture makes them look more rough than they really are.
 

fisherson

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there way to small for my camera. the biggest ones i can find are about the size of...umm..this ...........O.......
 

mrdc

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Well they are very small and they can kill corals without you knowinf if you don't see them. If they are sundials, I only know how to get rid of them and that's by manually taking them out. I will research for another way ...
 

fisherson

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so what do you think they are? only plantlife in my tank is the ball of cheato....i don't even have hair algea..heh
 

1journeyman

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If you got a large colony of small snails on a ball of Chaeto I would be inclined to believe they are some sort of young algae eating snail.... Should be a benefit to your tank.
 

fisherson

Member
i'm hoping that's the case. We'll see in a few weeks what they really are when they get some more size...IF they get more size that is.
 

fisherson

Member
ok i just counted 56 of them and it was a pretty quick count... now i'm noticing some longer spiral shells just as tiny as the rest of the snails. what is going on haha.
 

fisherson

Member
do you know where to get info on them..i keep getting scientific family/genus names and stuff.
Are they good? Bad?
how big do they get?
anything
 
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