Life on rock

[Yamaxt660]

Does anyone know what this little fella is and is it good or bad [emoji846]

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[liverock]

Limpet...good guy...

 

[Yamaxt660]

Limpet...good guy...

Great thank you [emoji106]

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[Imaexpat2]

Yeah Limpet...I have seen sources that say safe and I have seen some that say certain species are suspect. If its not bothering anything I guess let it be...It most definintly will reproduce on you though giving you lots of them over some time. I had some show up in my QT tank once, hence why I know.

 

[Yamaxt660]

Yeah Limpet...I have seen sources that say safe and I have seen some that say certain species are suspect. If its not bothering anything I guess let it be...It most definintly will reproduce on you though giving you lots of them over some time. I had some show up in my QT tank once, hence why I know.

I will keep an eye on it there is nothing in tank at moment as its a new setup but thank you for replying with this as will watch out and see what it gets upto [emoji106]

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[Sk8r]

I have them all over: good little cleaners. And will breed.

 

[Imaexpat2]

The ones I had seemed to be algae only eaters...but I am kinda paranoid so go they must.
I aint taking no chances! But heck yeah they reproduce like no tomorrow!!! In just a couple of weeks they were all over the place in my 6 gallon QT tank.

 

[Yamaxt660]

Hopefully they won't start to distruct anything when I have corals and fish in tank.

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[gabedawg]

Be careful when you're cleaning the glass if you get a bunch of babies they are hard to see and will for sure scratch the tank if you run over them


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[Imaexpat2]

+1 to that with the glass magnet cleaner!

 

[Yamaxt660]

+1 to that with the glass magnet cleaner!

I have magnet cleaner on my tank so hopefully one of these dont get behind that and scratch glass. Might have to keep a close eye on possible reproduction on these.

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[cody6766]

I've had many limpets in almost all of my tanks after a handful of moves. I've never encountered on that was a problem, nor have I had one get stuck in my magfloat and scratch my glass. I'm rebuilding a 2'ish year old tank after a prolonged winter power outage and have noticed a few limpets on the glass. They leave behind a trail of cleared film algae and nothing more than poo.

It's a good idea to keep an eye out for any odd behavior out of something you didn't add to the tank for a reason, but your risk of problems is low to zero with these guys.

 

[Yamaxt660]

I've had many limpets in almost all of my tanks after a handful of moves. I've never encountered on that was a problem, nor have I had one get stuck in my magfloat and scratch my glass. I'm rebuilding a 2'ish year old tank after a prolonged winter power outage and have noticed a few limpets on the glass. They leave behind a trail of cleared film algae and nothing more than poo.

It's a good idea to keep an eye out for any odd behavior out of something you didn't add to the tank for a reason, but your risk of problems is low to zero with these guys.

These have come in on the live rock a added to tank while cycling reef tank. Hopefully they won't cause any issues.

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[Yamaxt660]

These have come in on the live rock added to tank while cycling reef tank. Hopefully they won't cause any issues.

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[cody6766]

These have come in on the live rock a added to tank while cycling reef tank. Hopefully they won't cause any issues.

The likelihood of problems is incredibly low-to-nil. I consider them a dollar saved on a snail whenever I see one. Ditto for stomatila snails, colistina snails, bristle worms, and astrea stars. There's a lot of cool microfauna that you'll notice as your tank matures. Most of it is perfectly safe.