Pleuroploca australasia - Red Foot Snail

[demonboy369]

Pleuroploca australasia - Red Foot Snail

This is all I could find about it. Its how i ID the thing.
Scroll down and you will see it... Its the 5th one down...

http://www.woodbridge.tased.edu.au/mdc/Species Register/sea_snails.htm


Any ideas? It says its diet is marine invertabrates... Does that mean snail and shrimp or does that mean pods and what not?
Corals?

It came on a piece of rock I just picked up from bert's this evening and need to know if I should toss it or leave it in there. I dont want something that will be killing my livestock, just need it to eat algae and what not.

 

[pagojoe]

That's probably not the same species you have, since it's endemic to Australia, and pretty much no live rock or live snails make it out of Australia for the aquarium trade. It's probably in the same family, though, if it has a red foot. All the snails in this family are predators, feeding on various things, but most of them eat other snails. If you could post a pic I could likely confirm the ID.

Cheers,



Don

 

[Monkeyfish]

I've seen something similar sold in LFS on occasion. They are commonly called "tulip snails" (Fasciolaria sp.) They definitely eat other snails, bivalves (clams, oysters, etc.) and may go after other inverts as well. From what I've read they don't eat corals.