caulepar predator snail

calvinci

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Anyone know what snail is it? When it's head's out, it's got 2 tentacle on it's head, just like normal vegetable snail. It's eating my caulepar and I had remove many of them but they keep on coming back. It's in the refugium, how do I get rid of them, any predator that will take them off?

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it looks sort of like a <em>Stomatella</em> in shape.

you shouldn't kill them off. you should send them to Italy so they can eat the <em>Caulerpa taxifolia</em>.
 
you know, whelks might eat them. i actually have a whelk in my tank as a matter of fact and i think that it has been eating my <em>Stomatella</em>. i should remove it, but haven't wanted to kill it. where do you live? i could mail it to you.
 
shapes like stomatella shell, but it's not flat on it's back, it's standing up. I do have tons of stomatella in my main tank and refugium too. Too bad I am in Malaysia, thanks for your offer thou.

What's whelk, do you have a pix of it?
 
Calvinci--my whelk looks like the ones at top of <a href="http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=597953&highlight=whelk"> this thread</a>. it's pretty big, about 3cm long.
 
Is the shell bivalved like a clam, or just a single shell? If it's just one shell it's Oxynoe or Lobiger. If it's bivalved it's a Julid of some sort. In any case freshwater dipping the Caulerpa is probably the best way to get rid of them.
 
it's only one shell, just like the land snail. Too bad the whole caulepar will turn white after it ate part of it.
 
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