whelk

I've seen these guys periodically in my tank for years. They're small, around 1/2" to 3/4" long, seem to be mostly on the glass or rocks, and have a little brown bit of shell at the very back of their tail. I haven't been able to get a better picture than this, but their proboscis has darker...

Just a warning to fellow reefers here in KY I’ve got nassarius from several stores over the past months and several times I’ve ended up with a whelk in there without knowing it till I got home. Every time they’ve been tiny, too tiny to tell hardly. Only the behavior and subsequent out of water...

Found this guy on my glass today and was wondering what it could be. I haven't added anything in probably 2-3 months, one which was a clump of Dragons' Breath/Chaeto macroalgae. Current list of snails is as follows: 5-7 Ceriths 1 Bumblebee 1 Magherita (maybe 2?) 2 Money Cowrie It looks almost...

Hi guys, I went to my LFS yesterday and saw this guys all over their tanks. I’m in Brazil, where the import of inverts from out of the country is illegal. No when I moved here, I had to leave my Nassarius Snail behind. They supposedly don’t existe here, so I was surprised when I saw this snails...

I got some nassarius snails from a seller ive bought nassariusses from but they were much darker in color hoping its a different species. They are much more active in the tank than my all white ones. They do move quickly on the sand but i have never seen a whelk so im not sure how fast they are...

Got this snail for 1$. Didn’t get a good look before I grabbed him. Is he a whelk or some kind of nassarius in not aware of?