crazy hitch hicher snail found in tank pic id please!?!?!

[murph145]

i found this guy on a piece of my LR next to a small metallic green shroom and was wondering what the heck it was.... its very colorful and has appendiges shooting out from the shell looks like an abalone shell of some sort...??
what do u guys think... its pretty interesting
thanks

 

[fedukeford]

sweeeeeet no clue wut it is but if you dont want it ill buy it off u

 

[vejomatic]

WOW!

:happyfish
~mc

 

[murph145]

pretty crazy looking huh?~?~
i just saw some fuzzy thing cruising around the tank and was like what the heck is this and luckily got it out....
doubt ill ever see him again i put him back in the tank lol

 

[murph145]

heres where i founf him in the tank

 

[smoney]

That is by far one of the coolest hitchikers I have ever seen. IMO, it looks to be like a nudibranch of some sort. The little bigger must have come from an actual reef in the ocean. thats the craziest thing.

 

[murph145]

isnt it crazy!!
its actually got a hard shell surrounding him and its flat shapped like an abalone then hes a snail underneath but it has the coolest colrs and wierdest things sticking out of his shell that retract

 

[smoney]

Ohh ok, Now that i look at the pics I see how its a snail. Does it have stinging tenticles?

 

[murph145]

u know im actually not sure what those tentacles are for hmmm good question

 

[murph145]

anyone else know what this thing might be??

 

[shnabbles]

Could it be a miniature version of the monster running around on LOST?

 

[murph145]

lol there yah go!!
never know lol hmmmm :thinking:

 

[speg]

I wonder if you just went ahead and grabbed it barehanded when you found it You know some snails are actually DEADLY?

 

[murph145]

hmmm i never though of that .... yeah i just used my hands to pry it off the rock it was on.... but my fingers have skin so thick that i cant feel heat lol from construction my hands have been ruined but thanks for the advice that could have been a bad situation

 

[murph145]

after lookin up what an abalone is im 99% sure thats what it is... i dont know what species but its most likely a juvenile abalone .... those tentacles are called its epipodial tentacles and its non-poisonous phewww close call lol

 

[kimc]

Definitely one for the hitchhiker thread!! Cool find!!!

 

[jtoz116]

looks like a crazy nudibranch.........

 

[smoney]

Originally Posted by JtoZ116
looks like a crazy nudibranch.........
thats what i said, but if you look close at the first few pics you can see a shell.

 

[eaglefan]

very cool, i'm in on the abalone theory.

 

[carshark]

oh i think it is the coolest hitchiker to date that ive seen, awesome awesome find..