soft snail like IID

[68551]

Found this in the rock this morning...I only saw it because it was ""smoking"!!!! Little baby pufs of spawning smoke were comming out....It looks like a snail without a body....Very soft but I can see 2 feeler antenna & a mouth like a snail snout but it doesen't have a shell!!!!
Here you can see the "syphon" mouth.

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and here the soft body

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[tucker0065]

Looks like a Stomatella to me they are great algae eaters.

 

[68551]

I thought that too but there is no "cap" shell on top...It is fuzzy, almost like a sea hare!!!

 

[tucker0065]

Stomatella do have a mantle that can extend over their shell, I still think thats what you found. Are you sure theres no shell at all?

 

[S13<3]

second pic looks weird, first pic looks like stomatella tho

 

[68551]

I took the 2nd pic first....almost 6 months ago I had a yellow cucumber go MIA & at first I thought it had divided...Def no shell....The weird 2nd picture shows how it kinda looks "fuzzy" like a sea hare & thats when I too thought it looked like a stopmatella. If I haden't seen it crawling on the rock in the 2nd pic first I would agree. the picture was also taken with a flash with lights out. Once the camera flashed it went in the whole (1st picture)....It is in a rock near very high flow...When it was out in the 2nd pic I could see the strong current slightly depressing the body....That is how I am sure there was no outer shell....

Also, it was larger than any stomatella I have seen....
It is now completely hidden inside the rock....

 

[68551]

Well Tucker0065 you ARE correct!!! When I could finally see him in the light I could see the shell....He is the biggest one I have ever seen!!!
I have peppermint & cleaner shrimp....will they get him???

 

[SushiGirl]

Great hitchhiker! My shrimp never bothered my stomatellas.

 

[68551]

Great news...Thanks!!!