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sushiray
05-24-2010, 10:23 PM
the snails I have are I think are hitch hiker typed, not the ones u buy with nice shells. sorry no pics yet.

mine are the ones with a small soft shell & the slug-like body is bigger than its shell, a few are all white, one is gray speckled, another is all black which looks like a mussel shell.

wondering are these going to pose a problem, should I try to get rid of them? they are cleaning my long time grown algae. back glass with coraline algae, but I actually want to saave my algae for when I do re-stock

I know pics would be best but hope my description can be a start for someone to make recommendations.

while still treating for ich, the small grayish shrimps have grown & come out to play, my cleaner & peppermint shrimps are more active, hermit crab still roaming, even a brittle star fish came out for a walk on my algae back glass!

just worried that the snails will be a bad nuisance. thks all!

sushiray
05-24-2010, 10:34 PM
also, have these 2 very long bristle worms (maybe one is a fire wqorm?) one is a bit flatter than tubular & reddish that has white bristly hair like around its body (legs?) the other is long & a bit tubular with more fine legs(?) not white or hair-like. next day off gonna remove the live rock to remove them, I know they are too big to be good neighbors. agree?

sushiray
05-25-2010, 12:27 PM
snails & long bristle worms?