How to catch sundial snails

[morayeels]

I was over at a friends house yesterday and was looking at his reef tank and I noticed a lot and when Im saying a lot I saying hundreds of these little snails all over the place. So I took a few samples and they look like sundial snails to me. He needs HELP :help: :help: fast.

 

[fishy7]

Do you have a pic of these snails? It is best to be 100% sure of the type.

 

[morayeels]

"O" im sure of what they are.

 

[larrynews]

i just picked mine when i had them off at night the zoas close up and they were really easy

 

[morayeels]

Ya!!!!
Im talking about a couple of hundred snails all over the tank.
There needs to be another way?

 

[ukcats]

Originally Posted by morayeels
Ya!!!!
Im talking about a couple of hundred snails all over the tank.
There needs to be another way?

There is a harmless algae eating snail out there that looks like sundials...I have some myself. Do you have a picture? Are they definitely eating the corals?

 

[larrynews]

here is a pic

 

[viper_930]

I really doubt they're sundial snails. Hundreds is way too many and they wouldn't be all over the tank, only on the zoo colonies.
They're probably collonista snails.

 

[ophiura]

Definitely agree on the collonista snails

 

[stdreb27]

Hey if you want to get rid of em send them to me, I need some.

 

[morayeels]

These snails are eating at this guys lobs and other corals in his tank. I never seen anything like this. He told me he picked out 100 in one night and there are still alot more.

 

[stdreb27]

hey seriously I wouldn't like to feed my puffer and lunar wrasse. My wrasse loves snails.

 

[stdreb27]

http://www.thesea.org/reef_aquarium/...sts_snails.php

 

[alyssia]

Originally Posted by larrynews
here is a pic

I have alot of little snails that come out at night that I am having a big problem trying to ID. They look similat to that snail but they are cone shaped and have white line that spiral around them. They are really tiny.

 

[ophiura]

Originally Posted by morayeels
These snails are eating at this guys lobs and other corals in his tank. I never seen anything like this. He told me he picked out 100 in one night and there are still alot more.

I suspect that something else may be to blame. Even true sundials will not eat anything other than polyps. These will "bloom" if you have a lot of algae and such, but I would encourage a complete review of the system before deciding it is something like the snails.
This is a collonista snail:
Image from a Japanese shell site

 

[morayeels]

The shell looks like this

 

[ophiura]

That is a nerite, also a harmless grazer IMO. Tend to reproduce well I think.

 

[morayeels]

Well let me tell you this. This tank has so many of these that there all over everything. I seen them in the middle of the Lobs, polyps, pagodas and other corals. What other non reef safe snail looks like this?

 

[mudplayerx]

Originally Posted by ophiura
I suspect that something else may be to blame. Even true sundials will not eat anything other than polyps. These will "bloom" if you have a lot of algae and such, but I would encourage a complete review of the system before deciding it is something like the snails.
This is a collonista snail:
Image from a Japanese shell site

Are these also known by the more common name of mini-turbos? I have a couple of these that appear every night in the same piece of live rock.

 

[darknes]

Originally Posted by mudplayerx
Are these also known by the more common name of mini-turbos? I have a couple of these that appear every night in the same piece of live rock.
Yes, Collonista snails are commonly called mini-turbos.