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    Posted: May 14 2004 at 11:32am
Should I be at all worried about a light brown colored fleshy limpet in my tank (fleshy on the outside with an inner shell). I got them on some algea I got from another member of the club and at first I wasn't very worried about them. The other member said he had never seen them eat any coral and were just good.

Well I haven't seen them eat any coral but my worry is this, I put the algea in about 2 months ago and just recently they started showing up. But just last night I looked and there was probably 50 on my glass of various sizes ranging from 1/16th of an inch to 1/2 inch. With them reproducing this fast should I worry about them overrunning my tank?

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Can you post pics?  If they are just limpets, COOL!  I wish mine would multiply that fast! 

Where are you located?  I'd be willing to come take as many as you'd let me take off your hands!

Unless they are eating your corals, just enjoy the new life forms! 

Everything will eventually even out and you will probably not see so many of them.  I get glimpses of mine only once in a while.  I've even found nudibranchs from something I bought from the LFS.
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My guess is that they are stomata~something snails. I call them slugs because they look almost exactly like a garden slug.

The reason they are on the glass is because there is a nice tasting algae growing there. They will not harm anything. They are good and are reproducing in your tank - also good.
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