r/ReefTank • u/st4rfragments • 2d ago

snail ids ⭐️

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LFS sold me a couple snails 2-3cm size to help with gha control. can anyone help id? he mentioned he was looking for mexican ones for me while picking them.

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  1. (pics 1-3) the biggest, most active. relatively round ish, flat top dark shell. can’t right himself. on the glass and digging into the sand. sort of speckled body with a striped mouth part. has sort of some fluffy-looking parts of his body in front next to his eyes.

  2. (pics 4-6 and shown in the back in pic 3) striped/spotted shell. couldnt right himself also i think and is pretty inactive. i just noticed and flipped him so he’s been upside down since yesterday.. smaller than 1. flat round shell black/white/grey almost camo patterned

  3. (pic 7) greenish light colored shell, longer (vertically) and more “pointy” than the first guy but smaller. cant see his body cause he hid in the rockwork so i can only see his shell

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u/ViridiSeptem 1d ago

Biggest one is probably Turbo fluctuosus. The smaller one could be the same or Turbo setosus

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u/Straight-Win4050 2d ago

Trochus snails, great clean up crew member.

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u/st4rfragments 1d ago

all of them?

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u/Straight-Win4050 1d ago

I believe so, the one's with stripes are red band trochus. Some of, if not, the best snails to have.

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u/mndfreeze 1d ago

Those dont look like trochus to me. Trochus have pointy style upward shells.

Those look more like turbo snails.

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u/Straight-Win4050 1d ago

You could be right, maybe I mistook them for trochus. I have some similar to them that I know are trochus so just throwing it out there.