Snail or not a Snail thats my question.

[stang8u]

I moved a piece of live rock....saw some thing moving on it.Ov corse i did not know it was there.I frist grabbed the rock and droped it.There was some thing gooie on the back of it.Nothing like unknowingly grabbing unknown creatures in the tank. LOL.
I think it is a SNAIL ( EGG COWERIE ) OVULA OVUM.
Im not to sure tho.
Can any one I.D. this??

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[greenbean36191]

Yes, it's a snail. It's a shield limpet in the genus Scutus. They're generally harmless but some people have reported them nibbling corals.

 

[stang8u]

I have nere seen this type of snail be for.
Well except in the invert books.
The tank has been up and running for 1 1/2 years now.
Not sure where i pick the snail up at.
90 % of the live rock came out of a 2 year old 30 gal reef set up.never saw it be for.
Its cool looking,looks like fringes on the outer edjes,
glides on the rocks.

 

[Kribensis_2004]

how did you get yours out in the day? i belive i have one of those in my 55 but he only comes out at night. thanks for the info.
Now off to reaserch the little guy.

 

[flrydr]

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=scutus
first seen mine in nov. it was the size of a quarter, most recent pic shows it near a 3" across maxima. have a mixed tank everything from clams to sps and have only lost one specimen since it's finding and it was a green trach that we have attributed to the lighting upgrade and it being too close to the halides
sorry the pics are a lil blurry, my son took them and he didn't use macro.....
nov.

 

[stang8u]

Thanks for your replys.

The pictures from link looks like the snail.
I am not to sure about putting it back in the 75 gal.
Its in a 12 gal nano with little live rock.
Till i could find out what it was and so I could catch it later.

The invert book said that thay eat soft coral.
But the link said thay are "(sponge feeders, but the general consensus is that Scutus is an algal grazers.)"

I know ( Keyhole Limpets ) do eat soft coral.As my old ToadStool was looking bad.I removed the toadStool and turned it around.
There was a Keyhole Limpet eatting a hole on the base of the ToadStool.It was all most 1/2 way through.

I do not want to kill it, but i don't want it to go and eat my corals.
Im still not to sure what im going to do with it.

Agen Thank you for your replys.

 

[flrydr]

soft corals...... not mine so far got pom pom xenia and silver brach that had to be harvested frequently up until i started dripping kalk now it seems to have slowed down but just before that time we did get rid of nearly 50+ stalks
tank is mixed .... lps acros clams..... never see it doing anything but algae grazing but like a lot of things i have read and heard about sometimes it's specimen dependant..... some do and some dont ooops edit btw that is a 75g its in

 

[reefgrief]

I have lots of algae in a sump, and would be glad to give it a home, if you want to sell / trade & ship it. Let me know.