Sundial snales in a tank with no coral?

[Opcn]

I bought some live rubble to seed my new fuge with and I left it in the bag and lowered it into the tank, keeping them seperate for QT reasons, unfortunately after a week my pump fell and the current allowed the water to mix. In order to repare the damage and reaquascape my tank I shut off the light and did some work, and straightened out the bag, when I turned back on the light I saw sundial snails up on the rocks in the bag. I have a mushroom and a candy cane in that tank, and they are fine after a week, so I'm thinking the little snails didn't make the trek out of the bag, but I have zome Zoas coming tomorrow and I was wondering if I need to worry about planktonic larve, also can I QT the rubble away from corals and have them die out, or will they scavenge? Its really nice rubble and I was really looking foreward to seeding my tank with it.

Thanks

 

[MTB]

I'd pick all the snails out of there. I wouldn't worry bout larve that much. They may be able to scavenge to survive. They will be able to smell zoos and travel to them. I don't think you could QT in a tank with zoos.

I always check my zoos for these snails. What do ya know I move a rock away from some zoos and there is one muchin on the zoos. It's to bad that they are predators. They sure do look cool.

 

[Opcn]

I've picked 4 out so far, and the rubble isn't going back in with the LR untill after a long QT, and there haven't been zoanthids in the tank for at least a year so there isn't any thing to draw the snail, well not untill later today that is.

 

[edsimmons]

What if bait a trap (baby food jar)with some sacrificial zoos and pull the snails out once they are in the trap?

 

[bobafett]

Are you sure they are sundials? It seems unusual that you would get so many of them from live rubble.

 

[aquarius77]

I bet they are Collonista. They appear similar to a sundial at first and i could see how you could be confused, i was.

Here is a link that will help you to distinguish between the two, Collonista are not a problem if thats what you have.

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/snails.html