Elizzy Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 This snail just ate the zoas that were on this plug. Unbelievable!!! Are there bad snails, because ##~€*>}{~<?!£^% Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherita Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 There are absolutely bad snails out there. I can't positively id your snail. But if it ate your zoas then it needs to be gone. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizzy Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Thought it was a turbo . But there used to be 3 zoas on that plug Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherita Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 It certainly looks like a turbo. Is it possible that he bulldozed them off the plug, rather than ate them? Mine occasionally will "unglue" my frags for me. Did you see him actually consume the zoas? If not, you might look around in the tank with a flashlight, he could very well have just knocked them loose from the glue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarmerTy Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I'm running with a bulldoze theory unless you literally saw it eat it. They will run over everything! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mo'sMyName Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I can confirm I have a turbo that eats any zoa polyps that have issues like brown slime or get the jellied over look, but it never eats any healthy ones. I watched it clean a plug of struggling king midas zoas off a plug. It also has a taste for kaleidoscope polyps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmvanness Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I think this is what happened to a couple zoa colonies in my tank too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizzy Posted March 24, 2014 Author Share Posted March 24, 2014 Thanks...I did see him move over them, then they were gone...did not see them become detached. Happened to be King Midas, but they were perfectly fine. Oh well, at least there is one more plug of those in there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prettyfishy76 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 I have one of those snails in my small reef tank. It has never bothered any of my corals/zoas. R2G calls it a Zebra Turbo. Sorry to hear about your zoas, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mFrame Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Can you train it to eat Texas Trash Palys (TTPs)? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ct67stang Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 and cyano! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizzy Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 Speaking of cyano - I had a small patch of it on some live rock and I watched my coral beauty eat it. That is one of the best fish for eating algae - there is no hair algae or cyano in my tank now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Any trouble with your Coral Beauty eating polyps or nipping at clams? I hear if you feed daily they'll leave the polyps alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizzy Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 Well I decided not to get a clam because I read that they could nip at it. But it doesn't touch any coral. I've got xenia, ricordeas, mushrooms, leathers, acans, gsp, zoas, plate, frogspawn, macroalgae and a nem. (..plus some yellow and blue stuff that looks like zoas, but it's called something else.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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