Need "Thing" IDed

[Schmit]

OK, This has been crawling around the tank for some time, coming out every now and then were we can see it. It finally came out were I could get a good pic of it.

It has a Metallic Blue Shell, and a Elephant like nose/head/thingy with two antennas coming off of it. Must have came on one of the LRs and has stayed hid while it grew... lord know I didn't introduce it.

Any Idea what it is?!?

 

[waterfaller1]

It's a stomatella snail, good hitchiker. Very prolific...you should see more. It is unusual to get a black one.

 

[thor32766]

yeah arent they usually a white/grayish color?

 

[waterfaller1]

Can you get another pic? It is possible I am looking at the pic wrong and this could be a skirted limpet.

 

[Me No Nemo]

It's a little tough to see, but I was thinking limpet when I first saw it.

 

[Stoney Mahony]

My stomatella reproduce about every 2 weeks. It's awesome to see them shoot all the eggs/sperm into the water. Awesome little guys

 

[Schmit]

I looked up your two suggestions and by the pics in the descriptions it is definitely a stomatella snail.... and now I also know I've got Limpets (which I didn't know exactly what they were).

Here is another photo I just took (not as good as he was towards the back of the tank heading back under the rock when I turned the lights on). This is a side view... if you look close you can see his shell on the left side (7:00 - 1:00), the rest is his body(?).

Thanks!!!

 

[Sk8r]

The first picture seems to show a fringed skirt on the creature, which is not characteristic of a stomatella. I also thought that limpets were more pointed atop. IMHO we have not yet gotten an id, and still need a picture of this thing fringeless and stretched out like a snail long to say stomatella. The other detail that bothers me is the fat, compact antennae: stomatellas' are longer relative to the body, and thinner, nor do they have an elephant-like trunk. Clearly no conch, either. Keep after it, neighbors! We haven't gotten this one yet!

 

[thor32766]

yeah limpets look alot like a little volcano.

 

[thor32766]

http://melevsreef.com/id/snails.html
here you go check this out

 

[waterfaller1]

Not all limpets look like a volcano.You are talking about keyhole limpets. Not all stomatellas look the same either, there are odd ones, and some are black like this one. I still say stomatella due to the cap shell. If I could see it in person I would definately tell you. A stomatella will cruise pretty quick, it can "rear" up and when the time is right will broadcast spawn.{it will look milky white like smoke}. There is also a hitchiker called an elephant slug, I have one and there is one in the fuge at work. It is jet black and if you touch it the back will separate. They have long antennae and come out at night only.

 

[Schmit]

Nope, looking over everything everyone has said and researching it on the web it has to be a Black Stomatella Snail.

 

[Schmit]

And walking up this just after sun-up and looking in the tank w/o the lights on I do believe we have another. This one is small. It's shell is bigger then it is (i.e. it doen't protrod from out of the shell) and the shell is like the other (cap like) but this one is white.

As soon as we truned on the lights it took off to hide in the rocks.