a black snail
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Topic: a black snail
Posted By: Guests
Subject: a black snail
Date Posted: October 14 2003 at 10:02pm
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I have an animal that seems to have crawled out of some new live rock. It looks like a black snail with little white dots all over the body and shell, but the shell is flat, like someone ran over it with a car tire. It's about 3/4"-1" long. At first I thought it was a slug. It's cool looking, but I was just wondering if anyone knows what it is. Sorry, I don't have a camera. Thanks in advance! |
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Posted By: rfoote
Date Posted: October 15 2003 at 5:02am
| My guess right off would be some type of Chiton. Is its body ribbed at all? Do a search on the web for chiton, you should find tons of pics. If it is, from what I understand they are reefsafe, although they can get very large. |
Posted By: Diverdan
Date Posted: October 15 2003 at 11:09am
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Chitons are reef safe, I have a bunch, but if you have an acrylic tank they can scratch it. My old 40 gallon acrylic is all scratched up from them. It was a pretty good excuse to get a bigger tank!
Rich ------------- 75 Gallon Reef 15 Gallon Reef |
Posted By: mereefer
Date Posted: October 15 2003 at 7:33pm
the snail you are describing could be a snail that I have seen eating colonial polips 
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