Sand Dollars

[SuperXdude]

Any experiance on these? Wife dropped two in my tank while I was out screwing off. Some weird fish too. Silvery, about the size of a quarter.

Also some wierd looking snails with a huge foot and tiny snorkle.

All came from Port Aransas.

Wife has been briefed not to add potentially unsafe critters to the tank. :(

[dan]

a few years ago i brought back some snails from port A thinking WOW look at all these snails and i'm paying 2.50 each at the lfs. well i put them in my tank and thought all right got a 100.00 worth of snails for nothing. next day i see the new snails and my old turbos shell to shell. wow! are they matting? NO THE NEW SNAILS WERE EATING MY TURBOS. no no no i said and started pulling out the snails. i think i lost about 10 turbos and all the carniverise snails. it's not that i saved a 100.00 but lost 25.00 of good turbos. just a thought. next time i bring something from the coast i'll put it in other tank cause you can bring back a lot of neat stuff.

[Tim Marvin]

I don't know about the fish or snails without a picture, but the sand dollars are fine.

[SuperXdude]

snails.....huge foot on a stalk...foot was about dime sized and they burrow completely beneath the sand, except for snorkle...

I'll get a pic soon as I can find one of the buggers...


SuperX

[Tim Marvin]

Drop a little food in and see if they come out.

[Reef69]

Those are probably nassarius..

[Someone]

What exactl;y can sand dollars do for a tank? and are they reef safe?

[Reef69]

nothing, they never surfice.

[GaryP]

Have you ever picked up a mollusk shell on the beach and seen a small hole drilled through the shell? That's caused by a snail called a Thais. They basically drill a hole through the shells with a drill bit type appendage on their mouth and suck out the inhabitants. Thais are the common snail you find at the coast that look something like a Turbo.