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I didn't get to snap a picture of it, but I have a turbo snail(i believe) with an orange shell and Monday I saw it attached to the top of one of my stomatella and at first I thought the stomie was attacking the snail, but on closer inspection I could see the stomatella was still moving along the glass and the snail seemed to be hitching a ride or something. The stomie eventually dislodged it when it went behind a rock which scraped off the snail.
Last night my husband saw almost the same thing, only this time it looked as if the same snail was attacking a stomatella. My husband wasn't sure what was going on, but just to be safe he knocked off the snail..Was it hitching a ride or fighting it, seeing it as competition for food?
Does anyone know what might be going on??? I've never heard of such a thing. And it's only my orange "turbo" The margarite, tongan, and astrea are normal.
"It bends like something that's very...bendy." --Dr. Paul Whitby
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| Can you provide detailed photos of the suspect snail? Chuck
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I don't have a pic of the one in my tank, but it looks just like this:
"It bends like something that's very...bendy." --Dr. Paul Whitby
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| Hi, Although it may not look that way, Stomatella are trochid snails, just like the so-called "turbo" snails. By and large such animals have not been recorded to show much in the way of agression. My guess is that the rider simply crawled up on top of the ridee with no "thought" at all of it being even alive. To the turbo the stomatella was just another rock, albeit one that moves...
Cheers, Ron
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