How to Tell a Whelk from a Good Snail

[redwarrior77]

I found this website and thought it was good enough to unbury and share with everyone...definitely helpful when staring at tiny snails and trying to sort the good from the bad!

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/whats_a_whelk.html

 

[Sk8r]

Nice!
I'd add, there's one other little snail that looks a lot like that: the columbellid, which comes in about those shades, and which, distinctively AFAIK, lets itself down on a thread of silk from rock to rock. The columbellids are great little guys, and you can't have too many of them(well, they do reproduce in tanks. ): they clean where other snails are too big to reach, and get no larger than a pencil eraser.

 

[Acrophet]

I went through this exercise last night and it appears all 8 of my snails are Nassarius snails and NOT whelks.
My snails have a clear/white trunk and they all seem to bury themselves in the sand.

 

[OgreMkV]

Everyone of mine that I've found has been a whelk... confirmed with that website.

Thanks for posting it.

 

[divemonster]

Re: How to Tell a Whelk from a Good Snail

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12919789#post12919789 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by redwarrior77
I found this website and thought it was good enough to unbury and share with everyone...definitely helpful when staring at tiny snails and trying to sort the good from the bad!

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/whats_a_whelk.html

good detective work redwarrior77!

so...how much work are you getting accomplished? Having a tank in my workspace has had some impact. Most of it has been positive. It's the cold callers that have taken the brunt of the. . . least positive. . . :mad2:

 

[redwarrior77]

LOL...it has made working long hours a lot more pleasant, although on the weekends when I need to come in and check on it, I do wish I'd kept it at home. I had 2 main reasons for choosing to do it at work. 1. I have 2 little ones at home that would probably think fish need mac and cheese to eat! 2. At work there will be coworkers to keep an eye on things if I take a long weekend.