Stomatella Snail?

thomygirl · Jun 10, 2016

So, if you need a good laugh, here's one for you... I was doing a water change and saw a strange looking critter I'd never seen before. It looked like a snail who lost it's shell. So I picked it out and put it in a container for closer inspection and left it alone while I finished. Then I was thinking "this poor guy lost his shell, he's probably going to die if I put it back in there.... I'll just feed it to my brittle star, it'll make a nice little snack." Well, when I tried to give it to the star, he said, "no way!" It quickly attached itself to the front glass and scurried away. Amazingly, I opened up my Reef2Reef app and the first picture I saw was identical to my strange little critter! A stomatella snail, and they're beneficial?? Yay!!! So glad the star didn't eat it

Lionfish Lair · Jun 10, 2016

What an awesome stomatella!

erinmegan85 · Jun 11, 2016

I have lots of these guys in my tank. They make a pretty awesome part of a CUC

ahiggins · Jun 27, 2016

I found a tan and two black ones randomly while disassembling some live rock lol

thomygirl · Jun 27, 2016

ahiggins said:
I found a tan and two black ones randomly while disassembling some live rock lol

Cool. Do you have pictures? I've never seen a black one!

Donna Peveto · Jul 28, 2018

Stomatella’s ?

kirstyflash · Jul 29, 2018

Cool. Mine have metallic red shells but they only come out when lights are out

SHNICI · Jul 29, 2018

Donna Peveto said:
Stomatella’s ?

you stress too much the one in the middle, it took off his tail to protect it self (like stomatella snal do, when they are stressed and running away by predators, they "cut off" them 1/3 flesh/tail which keep moving for a while, during this time the stomatella snail run away or hide it self in a hole.

Regards: SHNICI - Georgi

Brian1f1 · Aug 3, 2018

SHNICI said:
you stress too much the one in the middle, it took off his tail to protect it self (like stomatella snal do, when they are stressed and running away by predators, they "cut off" them 1/3 flesh/tail which keep moving for a while, during this time the stomatella snail run away or hide it self in a hole.

Regards: SHNICI - Georgi

Happened to me yesterday, I wasn’t expecting that!