Hello..I am Grant...Need some help ID'ing

[ghbrewer]

Hello everyone,

My name is Grant, and I am a new member of ARC. I may have met a few of you recently when purchasing goodies for my tanks, but still do not know may of you. I am new to the SW and reef side of aquariums, but have had FW tanks for years. I live in Canton and work in Alpharetta at Schnabel Engineering. I am a senior level Computer Aided Drafting and Design (CADD) technician that specializes in Civil design. The company that I work for is a geotechnical engineering firm that specializes in the design, rehabilitation, and monitoring of new and existing dams. My other aptitudes are in Computers, Technology, Woodworking, and Construction.

Now that introductions are out of the way, I am needing some help identifying some type of creatures that are growing on my LR. I looked at the Hitchiker's guide to see if I could tell what they might be, but the only thing that looks even remotely close at this stage is the snails w/out shells Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Please see the attached images.

Thanks,
Grant

 

[jdavid]

All tuby thingymajigs. 3&4 possible vermetid snails. do they make snot strings in your tank?

 

[ghbrewer]

Yeah, it does look like a few have very fine snot/mucus strings coming out of their heads, that is what lead me to believe that they might be the snails from the Hitchhiker's guide.

 

[jdavid]

I superglue the tubes shut. 1 is not harmful. 2 might be a vermetid snail as well. Over time, the mucus string can become web like and huge and an eyesore. That's why I kill them. (sorry vermetid snail lovers)

 

[rdnelson]

1 looks like it might be a stomatella (sp) snail and I agree with JDavid on the others.

FYI. In Canton the best help you can find is JennM. She owns Imagine Ocean and is a great resource. I do most of my shopping there when I can afford anything.

I am not too far from you (NW Forsyth Co) and drive through Canton on my way to and from work. If I can help let me know. Maybe you can help me with AutoCADD. I am self to aught and there is a ton I could learn.



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[ghbrewer]

JDavid;882543 wrote: I superglue the tubes shut. 1 is not harmful. 2 might be a vermetid snail as well. Over time, the mucus string can become web like and huge and an eyesore. That's why I kill them. (sorry vermetid snail lovers)

Thanks, I might just do that. I am guessing that I will have to remove the rock from the tank in order to super glue them? Gel type?

 

[rdnelson]

Gel if you do that but.... They are good filter feeders and really don't bother anything. I left mine.


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[jdavid]

True they are harmless. In a larger tank I might not mess with them. Don't want them in my nano

 

[ghbrewer]

rdnelson99;882546 wrote: 1 looks like it might be a stomatella (sp) snail and I agree with JDavid on the others.

FYI. In Canton the best help you can find is JennM. She owns Imagine Ocean and is a great resource. I do most of my shopping there when I can afford anything.

I am not too far from you (NW Forsyth Co) and drive through Canton on my way to and from work. If I can help let me know. Maybe you can help me with AutoCADD. I am self to aught and there is a ton I could learn.

Starting to feel better, my stomach was turning thinking that after all of my trouble trying to avoid pests (purchasing cured dry rock, seeding with what I thought was clean LR, etc...) that I might have gotten them anyways.

I have been to Imagine, Jenn is super nice.

In regards to CAD, just give me a shout sometime. I have trained many people in AutoCAD and love to share my knowledge when the opportunity arises. Matter of fact, I am close to starting a blog, but it will be mostly dedicated to civil and architectural design. Just give me a holler!!

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JDavid;882557 wrote: True they are harmless. In a larger tank I might not mess with them. Don't want them in my nano

This is my home tank, and it is a 58 gallon oceanic. Big enough not to worry?

 

[jdavid]

There is NOTHING that you can do to keep things from growing in your tank. A well established tank has a large biodiversity of all sorts of critters, and for the most part, it's a good thing! If you had aiptasia or nuisance algae popping up everywhere, that would suck. But you are good!
Only superglue the tubes shut if you don't like looking at them. If you are cool with them, keep em. Like Rich said, they are good filter feeders.

 

[ghbrewer]

My tank:

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JDavid;882563 wrote: There is NOTHING that you can do to keep things from growing in your tank. A well established tank has a large biodiversity of all sorts of critters, and for the most part, it's a good thing! If you had aiptasia or nuisance algae popping up everywhere, that would suck. But you are good!
Only superglue the tubes shut if you don't like looking at them. If you are cool with them, keep em. Like Rich said, they are good filter feeders.

Yeah, thanks pal!

 

[rdnelson]

Love the rock scape. That will look great all purpled up and full of corals.



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[jdavid]

I really like that scape. I know most people are about arches and open sandbeds, but I'm a cave builder. Your fish will like it too

 

[ghbrewer]

Hope so, coralline is starting to spread.

If only I could keep all of the snails off the glass

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JDavid;882568 wrote: I really like that scape. I know most people are about arches and open sandbeds, but I'm a cave builder. Your fish will like it too

Yeah, I was really happy with the way it turned out. I am going to probably have to take it apart and apply some expoy, but I am going to try and put it back the same way. I really like caves and arches, probably comes from my days of raising African cichlids I guess.

 

[rdnelson]

Two things. 1. Snails on the glass means they are doing what you pay them to do.

2. If you take the rock out you will never get it back the way it was. It is a law of Physics. Kinda like a dropped piece of peanut butter toast will always land face down on the carpet.


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[ghbrewer]

LOL. Probably so...

 

[bluespot]

You can let them be if you like them and not irritating nearby corals. Some people smash them. You can glue them shut underwater with gel superglue.

 

[jennm]

They're all pictures of Vermatid Snails. Let them be - they won't harm anything.

Epoxy to stick rocks all together seldom works as planned, and if/when you ever have to take things apart to move them, the epoxy doesn't hold large rocks together so well, and when you put it back together you have globs of epoxy showing and it's ugly (IMO). You got 'em stacked nicely - I'd leave them that way.

You have a LOT of snails - perhaps too many, that's why they are a visual distraction.

Jenn

 

[ghbrewer]

Yeah got one of the reef cleaner packages from reefcleaners.org, ended up being way too many. I took some out this morning to transfer to my new Spec V nano, hopefully that will help a bit.


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[jennm]

Yeah, reefcleaners, a million microscopic critters, almost free... :-/