Welcoming these little guys

[Dbarnes]

Took a look at my refugium this morning and it appears some snails hatched last night. About 200+ of these on the glass. Clearly snails but not sure what type, they are about the size of a copod I tried to get a pic but its tuff.

 

[cdrewferd]

Congrats. You're a grandpa. LOL

 

[Dbarnes]

Welcoming these little guys

Congrats. You're a grandpa. LOL

Haha the responsibility is almost over welming!

 

[yOdaddy]

Those are called CES snails aka coral eating snails!! Get rid of them fast! Ahahahha just playing congrats

 

[Dbarnes]

Welcoming these little guys

Those are called CES snails aka coral eating snails!! Get rid of them fast! Ahahahha just playing congrats

No idea the pain you just caused lol. Strange how I had little hesitation to rid of my own kin!!! Ahhhaaa

 

[ReefCheif]

HOw did you get snails to hatch in your tank, I always thought snails had to lay eggs in brackish water in order for them to hatch, but maybe thats only certain kinds?

 

[jahmic]

Yea, it's certain types. I know for a fact that nerite snails need brackish water...don't know if there are any other species that share the requirement. FWIW, nassarius snails definitely breed in tanks...started a tank with maybe 5 of them several months ago and have dozens now.

 

[Dbarnes]

Welcoming these little guys

HOw did you get snails to hatch in your tank, I always thought snails had to lay eggs in brackish water in order for them to hatch, but maybe thats only certain kinds?

It must only be for certain kinds, I have a lot of variety when it comes to snails and they are so small I can't tell yet what they are. They are in my ref which is heavily over grown and packed with live rock and copods so idk maybe there is enough stuff for then to hatch from. It's odd though cuz I nvr saw the eggs and I clean the glass all the time

 

[Dbarnes]

Welcoming these little guys

Yea, it's certain types. I know for a fact that nerite snails need brackish water...don't know if there are any other species that share the requirement. FWIW, nassarius snails definitely breed in tanks...started a tank with maybe 5 of them several months ago and have dozens now.

They look a lot like nassarius snails, but it's still tough to tell

 

[bubbarockies]

Those are called CES snails aka coral eating snails!! Get rid of them fast! Ahahahha just playing congrats

When I looked at the picture I thought to myself... those look like the mini snails I have. I read your post and I almost died!

 

[Smiley]

most likely collonista snails. they come and go depending on nutrients... great algae eaters however they rarely get any bigger than a BB.

 

[Dbarnes]

Welcoming these little guys

most likely collonista snails. they come and go depending on nutrients... great algae eaters however they rarely get any bigger than a BB.

Yep that's about the size of these little fellers... Why so many so sudden? That explains the lack of eggs

 

[Smiley]

probably had a burt of nutrients causing them to spawn and hatch.... looking at the GHA in your pic, i'd say thats the case. Nothing to worry about, but you may want to think about controlling your nutrients so your
GHA doesnt take over your display.

 

[Dbarnes]

Welcoming these little guys

probably had a burt of nutrients causing them to spawn and hatch.... looking at the GHA in your pic, i'd say thats the case. Nothing to worry about, but you may want to think about controlling your nutrients so your
GHA doesnt take over your display.

Ahhhh currently in the middle of that battle, I love bryopsis in my five and felt as if I could maintain it there and not in the DT.... My plan has failed, although my numbers still read zero the growth has sky rocketed in that past two weeks. I have started a carbon dosing regiment and hope this will injure the algae before the coral do I can pick out and eliminate it. It's tough to say if I can find the fine line where the corals will survive and the algae will not. I will start a thread soon on this but at this pint it is looking pretty good and I am starting to see some diminisent I'm the algae while the corals are actually looking better. This all started when I decided I wanted to clean my ref and eliminated a lot of my Cheto and calupra. But hey free snails!!!

 

[Smiley]

best way to rid yourself of bryposis is manual removal and water changes... sometimes you can get lucky and get trochus or turbo snails to eat it but you still have a nutrient problem you need to control...

 

[Zooid]

most likely collonista snails. they come and go depending on nutrients... great algae eaters however they rarely get any bigger than a BB.

+1
Colonistas are great. Columbellids are also really good and they breed fast.