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    Posted: January 02 2006 at 8:43pm

Well the tank is now 3 months old and I just discovered this guy today in the live rock right up front. He is mottled gray and is hard to see against the rock. He is living in a hole in the rock and appears to be eating brown algae off the rock and seems pretty active during the day. Any Ideas what he is and if I should keep him? He looks like a slug with no shell, two antenae and one visible mouth and is 3/4 to 1 inch long.


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I am curious to see what others say but I bet it is harmless.
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Bruce, I'm kinda thinking the same thing. I could have caught him today but left him. I fed phyto for the first time today and he came out imediately. Before this I have never seen him.


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It might be a stomatella snail--they have shells, but the shell is really hard to see, and only a small area of what you see.  But could be some slug as well...  either way I say it's harmless.
Was that in there yesterday? Casper--WY windier than ?

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Looks stomatella to me... SAFE!!!
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Thanks. It is definitely a stomatella. You can see the shell in this picture though he is upside down.


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