Please help me with this snail

[msantama]

Hello
This orange snail ate one of my acroporas
do you know what´s the name
There is some predator of this snail?


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[pagojoe]

That looks to be an Aesopus species, in the family Columbellidae. They aren't supposed to eat corals. If one little snail did that much damage to your Acropora, it must have had a really big appetite. Here is some info on the diet of these snails:

http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Columbellidae/Pages/Columbellidae_intro.htm

Cheers,



Don

 

[msantama]

thank you Don!!