ID this snail please

[israelnajar]

I just noticed this snail in my tank. I tried to get a good photo of it but this is the best I could do. Is it good or bad. It was probably about 1/4 inch long and the shell has distinct spiral shell but no patter as it is pure white except for the tip which is off white.

 

[israelnajar]

Nobody?

 

[LeslieH]

Sorry, the picture quality is so poor we have to trust you that it's a snail.....

 

[israelnajar]

Sorry for the bad pic like I said. But when I tried to get it out it was so small it fell through my fingers

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

that looks like the dreaded pyramidellae snail. IME they have infested and killed both clams and astrea snails for me.

I hate them more than any other pest that has ever messed with me.

note, mine were all pure white, if that makes a difference.

 

[israelnajar]

Awww....man, I will inspect my clams this afternoon. Hopefully that is the only one, and hopefully I can find it again.

 

[DSMpunk]

Definitely check out your clams and snails, but usually pyramidellae snails are either on or right next to their host. If its roaming around your tank, its probably a rissoid snail. They are algae grazers.

 

[SeaView]

Could be baby cerith snail too.

 

[pagojoe]

It's probably too skinny for a juvenile cerith, and only a few of the "pyramid" snails would potentially be this slender (Turbonilla species). They would all have sculpture on the shell, and your snail looks smooth to me, after I blew up your pic and tried to clarify the view a little. Some of the rissoids are smooth, but all the one's I'm familiar with are fatter than that. It doesn't look sinistral, or left-handed, so I don't think it's a triphorid, but it could possibly be a Cerithiopsis species. However, if it fell through your fingers, my guess is that it's a eulimid. These shells are so slick that it's difficult to get a grip on them, even when they are dry. They are mostly parasitic on echinoderms, and the ones that look like yours generally favor holothurians. Do you have any sea cucumbers in the tank? Compare your snail to these pics:

http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_46915.html

http://www.gastropods.com/8/Shell_32768.html

http://www.gastropods.com/3/Shell_46913.html

http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/TN_Family_EULIMIDAE.html

Cheers,



Don

 

[killingseed]

i personaly have been removing them all for now, seems to maybe two type in my tank maybe a 3rd not sure i still need to look though the ones i have been collecting for a each or so.

some have color and some dont. i am not sure which is which. i have a clam and i check him from time to time, nothing. i have turbo and some astrea snails. i have been checking them and i find them to be cover with pyramidellae snails under them; maybe 2 and even up 6. some are very very tiny so i have had a quest to rid my self of these reef demons all togather till i can tell which is which my self.

 

[israelnajar]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

After 2 months I haven't seen any more snails and my clams are doing great, as well as all my other corals.

Also I have not cucumbers I do how ever have a sand sifting star which lost two legs last week, but is now doing better.

 

[frederickk]

They will grow back don't worry

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

There is a chance that it is a Rissoid Snail, too. There is a link somewhere where you can ID the two of them, but I can't remember where it is at. Dr. Ron Shimek wrote the article

 

[israelnajar]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9861973#post9861973 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by frederickk
They will grow back don't worry

That's what I've been told, thank you.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9862129#post9862129 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Travis L. Stevens
There is a chance that it is a Rissoid Snail, too. There is a link somewhere where you can ID the two of them, but I can't remember where it is at. Dr. Ron Shimek wrote the article

Yup. DSMpunk said in an earlier post it may be a rissoid. Thanks!
http://www.reefland.com/rho/2006/05/identify_rissoid_pyramidellid_snails.php