Green Spiral? ID Please!

[Lion-o]

I tried searching RC threads for related topics and came up with nothing. Does anyone know what this small green spiral is in my tank? It is a flat circle and about a quarter inch in diameter. It just appeared one day and I don't know if I should remove it. Thanks!

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[hmello@bermexin]

Looks like poop. What fish do you have. Looks like from a herbivore.

[Sugar Magnolia]

That's an operculum from a snail. The operculum is the lid that is used to close up the opening to the shell when the snail retreats into the shell. Once the snail dies, and your clean up crew has eaten the flesh, you're left with the operculum and an empty shell.

[Whisperer]

Those snails look like they have died since the dinosaur age and by shape of their opening, they likely had an elongated operculae. It looks somewhat transluscent, and being green I lean towards a piece of algae.

[Sugar Magnolia]

Those snails look like they have died since the dinosaur age and by shape of their opening, they likely had an elongated operculae.

I didn't mean those snails. ;) Probably a turbo.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Vxu_tx5NynY/SIyHj36W5QI/AAAAAAAAIts/ETu2vr7MR_8/s400/operculum.jpg

Of course, I could be completely wrong. :lol: OP says it's about 1/4" in diameter, so a small speices of snail for sure if it is an operculum. Margarita, nerite?

[Whisperer]

Oh, Ok. Let's do carbon dating on those shells then. :D

[Sugar Magnolia]

:lol:

[noahm]

That's an operculum from a snail. The operculum is the lid that is used to close up the opening to the shell when the snail retreats into the shell. Once the snail dies, and your clean up crew has eaten the flesh, you're left with the operculum and an empty shell.

This was my first thought as well. Looks like it just grew a thing film of green algae on it.

[hmello@bermexin]

Oh yeah! Well I was doing the "grandpa change the babies diaper" thing last night so I am staying with fish poop!!!

[Lion-o]

Thanks for the help! Those shells that it is next to are just empty shells that our crabs can occupy when they get bigger. We have some snails that it could have come from, but I think they are all still alive, at least from our daily tally.. hmmm... =)

[Whisperer]

Can you move it against a white background? How does it feel like?