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kingnai
04/16/2007, 09:53 AM
Is this good or bad?

http://www.goswd.com/images/tank/pod.jpg

Also this snail can you ID if it is good or bad?

http://www.goswd.com/images/tank/snail.jpg

drummereef
04/16/2007, 09:59 AM
Looks like the first pic is an amphipod. Second pic might be a Nerite snail.

pagojoe
04/16/2007, 10:14 AM
The bottom one is the same little Collonista/Homalopoma that keeps showing up in reef tanks. It's a good guy.


Don

barbra
04/16/2007, 10:23 AM
Both the amphipods and the snails are beneficial.

Lpabsolute
04/16/2007, 10:32 AM
1st: Pod
2nd: Snail

Both Reef Safe

kingnai
04/16/2007, 10:33 AM
How do you filter your water without these getting trapped?

I took the filter out to clean it and these were in it?

Joshua1023
04/16/2007, 11:16 AM
You answered the question I was getting ready to ask. Do you have any zoanthids in your tank? If the snail is that shape w/ a real narrow shell it could be a sundial snail. That is what it looks like to me anyway. These eat and kill zoas. If you don't have zoanthids than no worries.

As far as not getting them trapped, good luck. Every screen and overflow box will let some stuff through. Especially when we're talking things that small.

pagojoe
04/16/2007, 12:41 PM
No, it's definitely not a sundial. The Heliacus species that people find in their zoanthids are way different, mainly dark brown or black markings on white, and have more heavily-sculptured shells with a very different profile. This is a turbinid in the subfamily Colloniini, most likely Collonista amakusaensis. There are several species in this family that are more common than C. amakusaensis, but for whatever reason this is the species that has become widespread among reef tank owners. It may be simply because they reproduce easily in aquaria, and one of the retailers has a thriving population that has been distributed via live rock.



Don

kingnai
04/17/2007, 10:52 AM
thanks

kingnai
04/17/2007, 10:54 AM
I love you all.

Travis L. Stevens
04/17/2007, 11:02 AM
1) Amphipod - Good
2) Collonista Snail - Good

kingnai
04/17/2007, 12:37 PM
the Pod is about 1/4 inch is that big or normal?

Travis L. Stevens
04/17/2007, 12:42 PM
Normal. Amphipods can get fairly large depending on the species.

kingnai
04/20/2007, 07:41 PM
bump

kingnai
04/20/2007, 07:42 PM
sorry didn't mean to bump this post!!!