mojoreason
05-17-2005, 04:18 PM
okay ... am at UCSD right now but i did get a shot of it ... didn't have time to download the pic ... it looks like a snail but i don't know if it is.
it has a shell like a snail - - it almost looks like a horshoe crab shell or maybe a potato bug out in your drive ... it sticks out of its shell though ... it has antennae that stick up too like a nassirius snail (but it ain't one of those) ...
anyway - - changing water and then see this thing that is spewing out white stuff ... i look at it closer and it looks like i described above ...
i decide i needed to get it out of there for a better photo but it didn't work ... as it was trying to escape on the back side of the rock i flicked it back ... it stuck to the rock and started extending itself - - i grabbed the camera ... then i went in with a small container to trap it and it shed it's ****ing skin!
sorry for the expletive ... it's the weirdest thing i've ever seen in my tank ... the excess thing it shed stuck to the rock and looked like a slug ... the other part retracted into the shell and slid down the rock into the sand and slanked away ... i went back to try and trap the other thing and it twirled up and fell into the sand bed too.
i think i saw another one of these cruising along the glass at the bottom by the sand ... what the hell are these?
and then here's another thing ... i thought i saw something in there that looked like a mollusk too - - but it was moving like a snail all weird-like as well ... a completely different shell than that above ... anyone have any of these in their tanks? i noticed one in my overflow too and thought i saw another smaller one. garf.org said something about them & their egg laying being beneficial ... anyone else have any experience with this?
it has a shell like a snail - - it almost looks like a horshoe crab shell or maybe a potato bug out in your drive ... it sticks out of its shell though ... it has antennae that stick up too like a nassirius snail (but it ain't one of those) ...
anyway - - changing water and then see this thing that is spewing out white stuff ... i look at it closer and it looks like i described above ...
i decide i needed to get it out of there for a better photo but it didn't work ... as it was trying to escape on the back side of the rock i flicked it back ... it stuck to the rock and started extending itself - - i grabbed the camera ... then i went in with a small container to trap it and it shed it's ****ing skin!
sorry for the expletive ... it's the weirdest thing i've ever seen in my tank ... the excess thing it shed stuck to the rock and looked like a slug ... the other part retracted into the shell and slid down the rock into the sand and slanked away ... i went back to try and trap the other thing and it twirled up and fell into the sand bed too.
i think i saw another one of these cruising along the glass at the bottom by the sand ... what the hell are these?
and then here's another thing ... i thought i saw something in there that looked like a mollusk too - - but it was moving like a snail all weird-like as well ... a completely different shell than that above ... anyone have any of these in their tanks? i noticed one in my overflow too and thought i saw another smaller one. garf.org said something about them & their egg laying being beneficial ... anyone else have any experience with this?