ID on this hitchhiker, please!

[MegIsAwesome06]

He is always in that spot. He's nocturnal. Doesn't like light. Looks red and black and kind of furry. Can anyone tell me what it is? Thank you, tapatalk geniuses!


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[SeaCucumberFan]

I dont see anything except a piece of a snail shell

 

[pagojoe]

That's an Ark Clam. Hard to be more specific unless you extricated it.

 

[Ron Reefman]

It doesn't move, but it's nocturnal... just what does it do that makes you say it's nocturnal? It looks like a shell stuck in the rock and maybe a sponge is growing in the gap between the rock and the shell. I'm not saying that's what it is, I'm saying that's what it looks like from the photo and the small amount of info.

Have you poked at it with anything? Does it react to touch? Is the silvery crosshatched part look like a shell? Is it hard? Is the black part under the 'shell' soft? Do the hairy things at the bottom move?

While I was writing pagojoe offered the idea of a clam and that makes sense to me. I see them 'stuck' inlive rock all the time when I snorkel in the Keys.

 

[zeemofree]

It doesn't move, but it's nocturnal... just what does it do that makes you say it's nocturnal? It looks like a shell stuck in the rock and maybe a sponge is growing in the gap between the rock and the shell. I'm not saying that's what it is, I'm saying that's what it looks like from the photo and the small amount of info. Have you poked at it with anything? Does it react to touch? Is the silvery crosshatched part look like a shell? Is it hard? Is the black part under the 'shell' soft? Do the hairy things at the bottom move? While I was writing pagojoe offered the idea of a clam and that makes sense to me. I see them 'stuck' inlive rock all the time when I snorkel in the Keys.

Looks like a broken nocturnal shell to me, why isn't the shell shying away from the light, defiantly a camera shy shell!!!!

 

[MegIsAwesome06]

It doesn't move, but it's nocturnal... just what does it do that makes you say it's nocturnal? It looks like a shell stuck in the rock and maybe a sponge is growing in the gap between the rock and the shell. I'm not saying that's what it is, I'm saying that's what it looks like from the photo and the small amount of info.

Have you poked at it with anything? Does it react to touch? Is the silvery crosshatched part look like a shell? Is it hard? Is the black part under the 'shell' soft? Do the hairy things at the bottom move?

While I was writing pagojoe offered the idea of a clam and that makes sense to me. I see them 'stuck' inlive rock all the time when I snorkel in the Keys.

Well, I think it's nocturnal because when I check the tank at night, it's further out than it usually is.

I took another pic last night. Maybe it's better. I'll post it below.


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[MegIsAwesome06]

Well, I think it's nocturnal because when I check the tank at night, it's further out than it usually is.

I took another pic last night. Maybe it's better. I'll post it below.


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[SeaCucumberFan]

Maybe an ark clam? Its very hard to tell without you pulling it out.

 

[Calgaryreef88]

Turbo snail???

Turbo snail???

They just appeared I don't have any snails can some one identify them

 

[pagojoe]

Collonista or Homalopoma species. Reefers call them "mini-turbos."


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