Anyone have "Frilly Limpets?"

NanoKat

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I'm down to my last one due to the fact that they seem to develop a taste for some of my corals (they were hitchikers in my original setup). This one didn't seem to be doing too badly (the last ones were munching on a bit of brain coral that was growing on my liverock) until recently I observed him eating my star polyps. It's not so bad right now, cause I have plenty of them and I do occasionally have to manually harvest a bit to keep them under control. I do have some really awesome ones though that are super neon green colored and I don't want him "grazing" there, so I'm thinking of popping him into the refugium since I have one now. I know people put lots of other types of snails in there, so I'm thinking he might be good in there. What do you think?
 
Here's a pic on one....it's from a while back and this one I have now is definitely more orange, but you can get the idea...they are beautiful!

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Here's a better one of one on a rock:

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I had a few of them in my 180g about 6-8 months ago. I had never seen or heard of them before but people on here told me they were bad and could eat corals so i ditched them.

Haven't seen any since i took out the 2 i found. If any more pop up, i'll shoot you a pm.
 
They're beautiful and I'm okay until I see them eating something I don't want them to eat. That's why I'm thinking of tossing him into the refugium since there's no corals in there for him to eat. Just didn't know if there's anything else I should know about them before I do that.
 
I had 3 blacks and 2 yellows that I purchased, all in my 65 gallon. I never once had any predation on my corals. I don't know if I got lucky, but I was under the impression they eat algae.
 
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