Fleshy Limpets
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Topic: Fleshy Limpets
Posted By: Kevin
Subject: Fleshy Limpets
Date Posted: May 14 2004 at 11:32am
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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? Thanks. |
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Posted By: rstruhs
Date Posted: May 14 2004 at 11:56am
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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. ------------- Rodney, Sandra, Jeffery, and Laura Struhs South Jordan, Utah 98th South & 40th West. (801) 282-2744 75 gallon reef 55 gallon reef 55 gallon FOWLR 20 gallon FOWLR |
Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: May 14 2004 at 2:48pm
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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. ------------- Reefkeeping Tips, & quick, easy setup tricks: www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9244 Pay it forward - become a paid WMAS member 
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