Somethings eating my Zoo's

[Rickyrooz1]

I think something is eating my Blue/Yellow zoanthid. This and my Supercolored Orange Zoo's are my only zoo colonies that are slowly losing polyps. I tried looking around the tank but could not find any detached polyps. I tried looking for the Sun Dial snail but had no luck finding one. I could only find about 5 what I think are pyramid snails about 2.5mm long in white shells (I found these at night). I looked online and found that they eat Tridacna Clam's. I use to have a 2" Blue Maxima until my Orange Spotted Hermit crab decided he needed something new to eat and ripped the flesh out of the clam shell. I never saw these snails bother my Maxima clam but I have seen them attached to my Astrea snails. I know they're not baby Astrea snails because the shells look more like a cerith snail and I don't have any cerith snails in the tank. I'll try to get a picture up.



If this snail does eat Clam's wouldn't it starve since I no longer have a clam? My clam died in February (Almost 6 months ago).

It looks like the snail on the right.

 

[Rickyrooz1]

These are the snails attached to the Astrea snail.

 

[Rickyrooz1]

 

[Rickyrooz1]

From the looks of this article it seems like I need to get these out ASAP!


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[camaroracer214]

yeah, get them out asap...they are very very bad news...they attack the soft tissues of you clams, zoas, and as you can see, your other snails.

 

[killingseed]

ok ok yes they do eat and kill snails and clams. all my small snail are dead do to those things and i try for a little while to get them out guess i lost. just not going to add snails for a while.

but does that mean they will eat or go after zoa's. if you have snails and clams you might have a problem but zoa's ? or is it just the way i have missread this threads?