Univited..please ID these for me.

[tony_caliente]

I have several of these (despite iodine dipping). Does any one know what they are? Pics aren't the best.

Thank you for viewing.

 

[drnecropolis]

Stomatella snails perhaps? Hard to tell on a blackberry..

 

[jennm]

Hard to see - are you referring to the Limpet? I think I see one in the first picture.

If that's what you're referring to - they are GOOD - and hard to come by.

Jenn

 

[tony_caliente]

Yes...limpits! Thank you!

 

[brianjfinn]

Yeah, limpets are good, don't try to get rid of them.

 

[budsreef]

For some reason my skimmer is a limpet breeding ground, it's always loaded with them. I never see them in my display but occassionally have a few small ones in my refugium.

 

[jesspete]

I have 23 tiny limpets in my overflow right now. Jenn, if I could get them out, I'd think about bringing them to you, stall for a few days, and then say, nah she's too far and put them all back in.

 

[tony_caliente]

I will cherish them and pray they eat crypto parasites. What was God's purpose for ick parasites and the cockaroach for that matter?

 

[dakota9]

Why are limpets good?


And the cockroach I can understand......... It's fleas that I feel is the place where evolution took a wrong turn......

 

[budsreef]

I think it is more of the good versus evil categories we put hitchhikers so it's not that they are something good as in you should go get some, it's that they aren't really bad with some exceptions. I think they are good algae eaters, but they will also eat coraline algae. I've read that their rasping mouth/toungue could potentially mar acrylic, but don't know that is a fact.

Dakota9;463828 wrote: Why are limpets good?


And the cockroach I can understand......... It's fleas that I feel is the place where evolution took a wrong turn......

 

[glxtrix]

Budsreef;463844 wrote: I think it is more of the good versus evil categories we put hitchhikers so it's not that they are something good as in you should go get some, it's that they aren't really bad with some exceptions. I think they are good algae eaters, but they will also eat coraline algae. I've read that their rasping mouth/toungue could potentially mar acrylic, but don't know that is a fact.

There are some types that will in fact eat through acrylic....fortunately I haven't ran into any. I have a few in the tank, never experienced any issues so far.

 

[jennm]

Limpets are good. They are also known to eat hydroids. Most people don't encounter hydroids, unless they use live brine (the hydroids hitch in on the live brine). In the absence of those they eat algae - rather like any other snail.

A customer brought me some limpets the other day - very tiny ones, I brought them home to put in my seahorse tank.

Jenn

 

[swfk44]

i got some of those glad to find out what there are