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Posted: September 19 2005 at 11:55pm |
I have two of them, they live down in the sand, and they are really fast for a snail, but I can't remember their name.
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 12:00am |
The trunk makes me think nassarius snail but mine don't have the "fins" on the back. Does it have a membrane that encompass the shell? Maybe some type of conch. 
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 12:52am |
I think Eric had them in a couple of weeks ago and I picked a couple up, I am going off memory and I think they were a dove snail or a dovey, I could be totally off base but that is what is sticking in my head.
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 12:54am |
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I think it is a Nassarius (I probably have the spelling wrong though!), unless the end of the foot has a "dovetail" shape, then it is a dovetail.
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 12:56am |
Dove Tail Nassarias.
Search on that and you find it's scientific name and more info. 
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Posted: September 20 2005 at 10:21am |
Funny I just saw one in my tank last night. At first I thought it was a nudi, but I tapped it's back and it def has a shell. Mine was just eating on some LR.
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Posted: September 23 2005 at 11:09pm |
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i have one in my tank too but i never bought one. do you think it came with the LR?
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Posted: September 24 2005 at 1:12am |
 fj40fax wrote:
At first I thought it was a nudi, but I tapped it's back and it def has a shell. |
This statement tells me that the one you saw was a different snail than the one pictured above. Notice the tip of the shell on the left side. The one you thought was a Nudibranch is actually a Stomatella Snail. They are all over and easily reproduce in many hobbyist tanks. I probably misspelled the name, but it looks like a garden slug and has a small sheild kind of thing, a poor excuse for a shell, definitly not a home, more like a piece of cardboard to keep off the rain. Sorry it's getting late and I'm rambling incoherently.
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