Palm coast florida finds

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Fats71

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I happened to bring these home today out of the Ocean here and do not know if they are ok to keep.
In my display that is a reef tank

The crabs I will toss into the sump for sure

Any help would be great on if the snails and what I think is a limpet and urchin are ok in my display with coral.

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I wouldn't add that crab if I were you. ( Not the hermit, the other one) It doesn't look reef safe at all. The hermit should be allright, the urchin not too sure sorry
 
I wouldn't add the snail to the tank either. I don't think that's an algae eating kind. I dunno about the urchin. Maybe a pencil urchin. It should be fine, but might knock over any coral frags not glued down securely.
 
Do you think the snails in the sump would be ok ?? I will monitor to see if they are sand sifters or eat algae.

I just do not have QT so I wanna make sure they are not known to bring in garbage stuff. The one round looking black one I think is a limpet but not sure of the kind.

The only thing I was going to add to my display was the urchin.

The crabs are all very small as you can see one so small it is like the size of a pencil which is actually hiding on the urchin.


I have live rubble rock around 50 pounds of it in my chambers and in the middle I have a 6 inch sand bed with chaeto and botryocladia uvari and some other stuff.

The snails I picked off of rock the limpets are all over down here and stick like glue. The other two were on separate rocks but both holding on for dear life.
 
No, it looks like a variation of Stramonita haemastoma, a muricid, which it is. They feed on other snails and clams. The limpet will be fine though, it's an algae eater.

Cheers,



Don
 
I have some of those snails in my reef tank . they havent done any harm so far.I got mine at south padre island,at the getties..If anyone else knows anything about these snails,sure would like some feed back...
 
LOL I guess that was a geographic interpretation. If you toss them out in Palm Coast, they go back in the water. If you toss them out in Iowa...their chances of survival are somewhat reduced. :)

And yes, they are the same ones found on the jetties at South Padre and Galveston. They eat barnacles and other molluscs.

Cheers,


Don
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14031507#post14031507 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by iaJim
"So toss the snails I have then ?"

Sorry, I read that as tossing out the snails. Not the situation?
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I was like who is killing what lol.

I am not into disposing of something that was alive and thriving one day and tossing them into my yard the next. If I could not use them I would acclimate them again to their natural environment as opposed to just killing them.

I wish I knew the names of them. The one I think is a sand burrowing snail the other two I have no idea but they are still in my bucket and I am observing them with the crabs and watching sump..
 
Well, that's good news. Sorry if I seemed to overreact. Here in our icy winter months, or any other time for that matter, tossing does indeed mean killing them. Glad you have some compassion for them.
 
I would not be in the hobby if I didn't. I work at Marineland with the Dolphins and we have a few reef tanks but I do not go in until next week so I am unable to get a good ID from any of them and I just do not know snails from here at all or really any place other than turbos conchs and the basics.
 
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