ID snail please

[chueu]

Can i request an ID of this hitchiking snail?

There's another black snail but can't get a decent photo yet

 

[pagojoe]

That's probably a muricid, which eats other snails, although I can't see enough detail to give you a better ID.

Cheers,


Don

 

[chueu]

Here's another one

 

[chueu]

Got a better pic of the black one

 

[chueu]

I'll remove the brown one

 

[chueu]

I pulled them out... They live in my garden now please tell me i did the right thing

 

[chueu]

Also i know have an urchin or abaloney type of creature... It's pink.. Anyone knows what this is

 

[Betta132]

You do know they'll die out there, right? Slowly, too. Unwanted snails are best put in a refugium or sump, it's not their fault somebody put their rock in your tank.
The black one looks like a mini turbo snail to me.
The pink thing looks just like a snail from underneath, it even has a snail mouth. It's not an urchin. Looks to me like a really dirty, algae-covered snail. Leave it alone, it has an algae-rasping mouth and is probably harmless.

 

[chueu]

You do know they'll die out there, right? Slowly, too. Unwanted snails are best put in a refugium or sump, it's not their fault somebody put their rock in your tank.
The black one looks like a mini turbo snail to me.
The pink thing looks just like a snail from underneath, it even has a snail mouth. It's not an urchin. Looks to me like a really dirty, algae-covered snail. Leave it alone, it has an algae-rasping mouth and is probably harmless.

I'll put them back for now till i figure out what to do with them.... I have no refugium or sump....

So the black one does look a bit like a turbo snail... What about the brown one..

Yea the pink thing is a snail... i'll leave it be

 

[chueu]

Here's a close up of the black one... Please confirm its reef safe...

 

[Betta132]

A LFS might not mind putting them in a sump.

 

[chueu]

Ill ask friends who have sumps.. do u know about the black dude betta132

 

[pagojoe]

All of them are reef safe. I can't see enough shell to ID the one with the pink overgrowth, but it's an algae grazer. The blackish one is Euchelus atratus, which grazes on microorganisms/microalgae and potentially cryptic sponges. The lighter-colored one is in the same family, either genus Euchelus or Herpetopoma. I believe it's Euchelus asper.

Cheers,



Don

 

[chueu]

Thanks so much pagojoe

 

[chueu]

Pegojoe helped me out alrdy..