caulepar predator snail

[calvinci]

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?

 

[eleodes]

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>.

 

[eleodes]

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.

 

[calvinci]

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?

 

[eleodes]

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.

 

[kmk2307]

Check this link:
http://www.seaslugforum.net/display.cfm?id=3819

Look up Oxynoe.

 

[Daemonfly]

Man, if that thing only eats caulerpa, I'd LOVE to have that in my tank. Damn caulerpa is a weed.

 

[Plantbrain]

It would be great if it ate only Caulpera.

Regards,
Tom Barr

 

[SuperNerd]

Isn't it kinda good they are eating the caulerpa? Saves a lot of energy from ripping it out yourself!!

 

[greenbean36191]

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.

 

[calvinci]

it's only one shell, just like the land snail. Too bad the whole caulepar will turn white after it ate part of it.

 

[calvinci]

confirm it's Oxynoe viridis

 

[ManEatingGuppy]

sea hares eat calpernia

 

[SuperNerd]

sea hares eat calpernia

what are "calpernia?"

 

[ManEatingGuppy]

caulerpa
i get confused