New Unidentified item in tank

[KurtsReef]

So, this thing shows up on my Orange Monti Cap...

Looks kind of like a crab underneath a lid, it sends out these "webs" to collect food...or at least that is my assumption.

Any ideas on what it is?

Will try to get a closer shot, perhaps different angle.

 

[RicksReefs]

Vermetid snail.

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php

 

[Fireworm]

I have some in my tank. For the most part I have had no problems with them. I had a Copper banded butterfly that liked them for a while. Not so many of them in the tank now. If they get on your tank, and you don't see them, they will tear the heck out of your tank scrapper.

 

[KurtsReef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14422850#post14422850 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RicksReefs
Vermetid snail.

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-01/rs/index.php

Thanks Rick, that appears to be the animal...

We shall see if the long nose butterfly finds it a tasty treat. Does not appear to be doing any harm other than the small circle it lives in for now.

 

[Fireworm]

I don't mind them on my rock. But I have had to cut some of my sps to get them off the coral, and I hate them on the visible glass of my tank

 

[KurtsReef]

So far this is the only one on any corals, assume they are elsewhere.

The way it sends out the mucus to recover food reminds me of how the christmas tree rock does the same, however it may be a larger version of this snail on the bottom of the rock as it does have a closable lid of sorts...and the dragon goby eats the mucus from that one

 

[Fireworm]

At one time I refused to feed when anyone was over to see the tank. I hated the mucas nets. Some of the people thought it was neat, but then you start watching the mucus and not the fish or the coral.