Help with ID (1 Viewer)

[jeremy]

Can anyone identify this. It’s a hard shell and something appears to move in the hole in the bottom. I think it dispels a type of web or strings. It’s not small it’s maybe half and inch wide. It looks to be upsetting the palys that it’s under.

 

[DeepBlueSomething]

The casting a web part sounds like it could be a vermitid snail -- but the picture - well I am not sure.

 

[jeremy]

1/4 inch not 1/2

 

[FarmerTy]

Looks like the larger variety of vermatiid snails.

 

[jeremy]

If it is it’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen!!!

 

[FarmerTy]

If it is it’s the biggest one I’ve ever seen!!!

Yeah, there's two sizes I've encountered. You're regular ones the size of an orange seed and then the giant ones the size of a June bug. The web gives it away.

 

[Cody]

Yeah, there's two sizes I've encountered. You're regular ones the size of an orange seed and then the giant ones the size of a June bug. The web gives it away.

It's absolutely one of those suckers. Just finished laying a nice bead of super glue over the openings on one the other day. Quite impressive how large their shells can get.

 

[frankc]

The good news is the bigger ones don't seem to reproduce and cover every inch of the tank like the smaller ones do. I have one that I've had for about 3 years. It's slightly over 1/2 inch diameter and about 4 inches long. It can put out a pretty impressive web, but I keep it behind a rock far enough from corals so it doesn't hurt anything.

Since yours is so close to coral, I would definitely get rid of it.