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Stomatella varia ?
After listening to one of the podcasts about pest eating
nudibranch 's I went hunting in the tank last night with a flashlight. I did manage to capture one unsuspecting poor victim. Is this a Stomatella varia, a poor innocent beneficial algae eater? From the picture(s) (which are poor) it seems so. Should I return him to the tank with a letter of appology and a pat on the hump ? How does one say sorry to an invertabrate?
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It's very hard to tell but those last couple of pics look like one. Is this what it looked like?
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yea that would be one of the good guys. turn him back into the tank and let him continue to his cleaning duties.
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Yep,. that's him - though mine didn't look so happy when I drug him outta there!
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The other dead give away is the fact that they are the fastest snails I have ever seen! I think that with that tiny shell they are the sports cars of snails.
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My little snail certainly took off like a sports car when I went digging for him !
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yeah that little streamlined shell is very aero or should I say hydrodynamic
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It was hard to get a picture of them. I was running all over the glass with a camera on a tripod.... not graceful at ALL.
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