What kind of snails?

[tg1119]

These snails have grown from little tiny ones to this size in a couple of months. Are these bad? I have been pulling them out because after seeing about 100 little tiny ones all of my zoas went down hill fast.

[caferacermike]

Look like cerith snails to me. If they are then they are reef safe.

[edawgm]

I as well have a ton of this little guys in my tank but have had no problems. It was the sun dial snail that I found that did some damage.

[Ping]

There are a couple people here who know about Zoa eating snails. They should post when they see this. If not, I know Ed at Wolf Reef can ID Zoa eating snails.

If they are sorry for your loss, but their is a good side of them. People Ebay and such will buy zoa eating snails to rid their tanks of Zoa's.

[Ping]

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/zoanthidhlthfaqs.htm

This may help.

[MattK]

It's a Collonista Amakusaensis. Reef Safe 8)

I have the same ones in my tank and have had no problem.

Here's a great ID link that everyone should have in their favorites:
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/

One of my favorite ID links.


Here's a Sundial:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=5245201#post5245201

[marcus_the_clownfish]

awsome website, it really helped me identify a few things

[tg1119]

Thanks for all the help. I am just really suspicious because I got some new zoas and then there were at least 100 of these little tiny guys that grew into that. I started losing zoas about this same time and I have slowly been pulling the snails out and my zoas seem to be doing better. This has been around 3 months ago. I did fresh water dips, iodine dips, and then would shake the zoas in the dip and the bottom would just be littered with these little guys.

[jake]

I have the same snails invading my small reef tank. I've been taking out some everynight for the past week. They don't mess with my zoas but I find a few on one of my candy canes and puple digi. Since finding them on those two particular corals (only those two have not been doing to well), I have to remove the snails from them everynight. After a week of removing, there are still a few that hide in the rocks, the coral are slowing recovering. That's just my two cents with the experience I encountered with these snails.