ID help please

denisetwite

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Anyone have a clue what these are.
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Hey I guess you can't find a good answer from MARS people.. that's ok, I am curious about them myself. Thanks for the persistancy to find out the truth!:cool:
 
It appears to be a Marginellid, small snail that commonly called peppermint snail. Do a search using pepermint as a keyword and it should bring some hits describing them.
Aside from that, I have few of them in my tank that came from couple of different online vendors as a members of detritivore package. I had no problems whatsoever with them.
Here's a site that has some pictures of the snails from family Marginellidae, there are tons of pictures there, though. :D
http://www.bigai.ne.jp/pic_book/family/2940.html

HTH.
 
Thanks for the info. Steven I just want to be absolutely sure of what they are. I didn't want to overreact if they were just cleaning up, but I don't want anything in there that is preying on my other critters either.
 
hmmm..the larger one looks like a brown coloring pencil! :D JK! kinda looks like olive snail shells....but I'm prolly WAY off on that! :( Erin
 
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