WTH is this, and what is it doing!

[Arn24]

I think I've seen this thing crawling on the wall before, but I've never seen it doing this! Picture to pique your curiosity, video to see what it's doing.

 

[Arn24]

Somebody let me know if there's a better way to insert the video from photobucket. Thanks.

 

[FinsUp]

DANG! No idea, but I'm following along because that thing is freeeeeeky.

 

[Arn24]

You're telling me! That's not what I wanted to hear from the experts! BTW, did the video work for you?

 

[MuralReef]

Hard to tell from the pics but it looks like a stomatella.

 

[WatercolorsGuy]

Hard to tell from the pics but it looks like a stomatella.

+1

 

[Arn24]

I'd buy that. Google images seem to correspond to what I've seen. Now, what the heck was it doing?

 

[FinsUp]

Video worked for me.
It looked like it was either spawning or had far too much to drink.

 

[Arn24]

So, there are some videos on youtube showing stomatellas doing exactly the same thing (reproducing), but I didn't see anything floating in the water afterwards? Shooting blanks?

 

[jda123]

There has to be on of the opposite sex to do the same thing for baby snails to show up. I have heard that they like to do it every full moon. Was there a full moon when you took the video?

 

[MuralReef]

Hard to tell from the pics but it looks like a stomatella.

 

[Arn24]

The moon was at 96% last night when I shot the video, so pretty close! However, this thing is in my basement. How would it know the lunar phase from there?

Good ID people. Definitely a stomatella. Thanks!

 

[MuralReef]

Sorry about the double post. The video was reall cool. They will reproduce quickly.

 

[asn-naso]

Sorry about the double post. The video was reall cool. They will reproduce quickly.

I used to have them in my tank, and would watch all of them do that at once. I wish I could buy a bunch, but have never seen them for sale.

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[WatercolorsGuy]

The moon was at 96% last night when I shot the video, so pretty close! However, this thing is in my basement. How would it know the lunar phase from there?

Good ID people. Definitely a stomatella. Thanks!

They don't have to see the moon in order to feel the moon.

 

[Arn24]

They don't have to see the moon in order to feel the moon.

Never thought about that, good point.

 

[maxfrenkel19]

So I'm hopping on this a little late and for the wrong reason, but if you do find some babies will you let me know? I researched these guys a little bit after watching your video (never seen this before super interesting!) and they seem like they would be beneficial to a reef: spawn readily, good algae eaters, interesting lunar behavior.

In particular I'd like to get a colony going in my refugium (algae is getting bad down there) as I think the 6-line in the display would probably pick them off.

Anyway if anyone has spares of these interesting snails, I'm in the market!