What are these snails?

Lakelivin · 03/22/2015, 11:59 AM

A few months ago I had an explosion of baby snails. There are easily a couple hundred of them. They are growing and eating everything including coralline algae off my rocks. I can live with that because the coralline grows back.

They do crawl on some of my corals but I can't really tell if they are eating the corals or just eating microscopic algae off from them.

I also see a number of small white dots on the glass and rocks. I can't say they are eating the coral but they are probably annoying them.

Can anyone identify them and tell me if I should let them be or start removing them by hand to at least reduce their numbers.

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pagojoe · 03/24/2015, 05:14 AM

They're baby ceriths. Harmless.

Don

ajespo85 · 03/24/2015, 06:29 AM

They could be the mini florida ceriths, if so, they won't get much bigger than that. Still harmless, will even dig though your sand bed, which is healthy.

03/22/2015, 11:59 AM	#1
Lakelivin Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2014 Posts: 52	What are these snails? A few months ago I had an explosion of baby snails. There are easily a couple hundred of them. They are growing and eating everything including coralline algae off my rocks. I can live with that because the coralline grows back. They do crawl on some of my corals but I can't really tell if they are eating the corals or just eating microscopic algae off from them. I also see a number of small white dots on the glass and rocks. I can't say they are eating the coral but they are probably annoying them. Can anyone identify them and tell me if I should let them be or start removing them by hand to at least reduce their numbers. [IMG][/IMG]

03/24/2015, 05:14 AM	#2
pagojoe Team RC Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Conroe, TX Posts: 2,761	They're baby ceriths. Harmless. Don

03/24/2015, 06:29 AM	#3
ajespo85 Espo Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Akron, ohio Posts: 447	They could be the mini florida ceriths, if so, they won't get much bigger than that. Still harmless, will even dig though your sand bed, which is healthy.