Mysterious snail

[e048]

So today while looking at my tank in the dark I saw a mysterious snail climbing up the walls of my tank....

It looks like a big brown nassarius but I thought those guys don't climb...

Could it be a whelk?

I banished him to the sump

If he's harmful in the morning I'll turn him over to the puffers

 

[ColinAbi]

So today while looking at my tank in the dark I saw a mysterious snail climbing up the walls of my tank....

It looks like a big brown nassarius but I thought those guys don't climb...

Could it be a whelk?

I banished him to the sump

If he's harmful in the morning I'll turn him over to the puffers

Pictures?

 

[joshbrookkate]

My nassarius climb the glass a lot. They hang out in the sandbed most of the time but they do climb.

 

[e048]

I ll try and take some tomorrow,

He's darker then any nassarius I've ever seen and way bigger something like 1.5-2ins

 

[e048]

I've also never put anything resembling a nassarius into my tank

 

[CStrickland]

My nassarius like to climb too
But big and dark is bad. Also, idk if nassarius really hitchike into tanks much, they're usually added on purpose.
Here's some good side-by-side pics of whelks and nass's http://melevsreef.com/node/1716
Idk if even a whelk gets 2" I've only seen nerites and turbos get that big myself

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Yes please get a picture but it could also be a Stomatella snail. They are a score on the hitchhiker list. I've got several of them in my tank but I've also got Nassarius snails. Nassarius snails have a big shell the Stomatella has a little short shell that really doesn't appear to be a snail shell at all, more like a thumbnail riding on its back. They come in many different colors the ones I have are mostly black, with white ish stomach's.

To me the Stomatella is one of the if not the best at cleaning algae from your whole tank. But please get a picture for proper verification.

 

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Pic 1

 

[e048]

Yes please get a picture but it could also be a Stomatella snail. They are a score on the hitchhiker list. I've got several of them in my tank but I've also got Nassarius snails. Nassarius snails have a big shell the Stomatella has a little short shell that really doesn't appear to be a snail shell at all, more like a thumbnail riding on its back. They come in many different colors the ones I have are mostly black, with white ish stomach's.

To me the Stomatella is one of the if not the best at cleaning algae from your whole tank. But please get a picture for proper verification.

Definey not a stomatella I'm not that dumb lol

 

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Pic 2

 

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Pic 3

 

[Dkuhlmann]

I never said you were dumb. But that is a whelk so it's got to go.

 

[e048]

i know you didn't mean anything by it. I actually want stomatellas but nobody around me has any

Guess he's going to become puffer food

 

[e048]

Anybody else have any input on what it is?

 

[Bent]

Looks like a conch to me...

Does it have eye stalls? I can't tell.

Edit:
I see eye stalks, I'm going with conch. Specific species I can't tell, def a strombus of some kind though.

 

[Auston]

Ya fighting conch was my first thought. What a score!

 

[Bent]

Op can you get some super close up pics of where the "trunk" is coming out of? B

Actually zooming in on pic 2 it does look like a fighting conch.

 

[e048]

It's not a conch... No complex eyes

 

[Bent]

I see two distinct eye stalks dude.

 

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