Lots to ID please, no rush

monsinour

Active Member
So I found 2 other snails in the tank last night. Both have black conical spiral shells with white spots/stripes on the shells. One of the 2 has a red foot. I have never seen a snail with a red foot before so I have no idea what it is. I think the snails are from the whelk family as they have the black snouts and I think the one was IDed a while ago and I got it out but it must have left some family behind.
Any idea on the one with the red foot?
 

bang guy

Moderator
A paste made from Lime, water, and some minced seafood will work. Make it about as thick as toothpaste and feed it to the Aiptasia.
 

monsinour

Active Member
The aiptasia I have been trying to kill for sooooo long has disapeared. I tried spackling its holes closed and it kept finding a way to get out. Now, I dont see it at all, wierd.
Anywho, If you have been following my posts, you know I have 2 mystery snails that havent been IDed yet as they hitched a ride. I finally found the camera and happen to see both of the snails out on a rock this evening. Now this was taken with a flashlight in my mouth and in a precarious position so let me say that the pic isnt the greatest.

Snail #1 has a mostly black shell, red foot, and I havent really seen a snout on it nor its eyes. The shell is conical in shape and the spirals go around the cone.
Snail #2 has a half black half stripped (black and white stripes) conical shell. the snout seems to be rather long (but the fighting conch snout is really really long) and its mostly white with black spots on it. It is too big to hide during the day anymore and now that I have the camera, I will try to snap a pic of it tomorrow.
One of these 2 had kids as I found a mostly white snail that looks like these 2 in the tank on the glass. It looked rather young.
 

bang guy

Moderator
I can only give a wild guess with those pictures.
#1 I would guess as a Horse Conch.
#2 a Buccinid Whelk of some sort.
 

monsinour

Active Member
So looking a the tank last night, I spotted this thing on my glass, again. It is obviously a worm of some kind, but what?
 

slice

Active Member
I saw the same thing in my tank a couple of months ago when spanko quickly ID'd it as a spaghetti worm
Terebellid polychaete
harmless filter feeder
 
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jstdv8

Guest
someone correct me if I'm wrong but thats a majano, not an aiptasia.
Eitehr way it must die. I always reccomend making a bit of paste out of some kalkwasser if you have it laying around, if not Mrs. Wages pickling lime is very cheap found at most wal-marts same stuff.
mix it to a thick paste and suck it in a syrynge and then pase the entire face of that beast and let it sit there for 45 minutes or so and then suck out the paste and the anemone with a turkey baster.
Turn your powerheads off first.
 

monsinour

Active Member
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Originally Posted by Jstdv8 http:///forum/thread/380512/lots-to-id-please-no-rush/80#post_3333099
someone correct me if I'm wrong but thats a majano, not an aiptasia.
Eitehr way it must die. I always reccomend making a bit of paste out of some kalkwasser if you have it laying around, if not Mrs. Wages pickling lime is very cheap found at most wal-marts same stuff.
mix it to a thick paste and suck it in a syrynge and then pase the entire face of that beast and let it sit there for 45 minutes or so and then suck out the paste and the anemone with a turkey baster.
Turn your powerheads off first.
huh?
 
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jstdv8

Guest
Ha, wow, when I found this thred I started from the first post and I only thought it was about 1 page long. Boy I must have been sleepy. Hehehehehe
I was commenting on the very first picture mino posted apparently in September LOL
 
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