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Marine Snail Parasites?

April 26, 2017Marine parasites snail

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Marine Snail Parasites?

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Hi There, <> Fist off, I very much appreciate your website – you have saved me many headaches, and my friendly inhabitants many discomforts. <> I have looked all over your website, and can’t find anything addressing this possible problem I have with a few of my Astrea Snails. <> I have a small SW tank (aprox. 25 gallons) with two aqua-cultured percula clowns, some small clams (not Tridacna), feather dusters, sponges, two small starfish, LR with coralline and Caulerpa algae. As I was doing a water change the other day, I noticed something growing on the shells of a few of my snails. I wasn’t able to get a good picture, but it looks like a black raspberry growing on one side of the snail. Although, it doesn’t really look black, it looks a shade of green. <> I don’t know how long they have been there, but I would imagine they’ve been in the tank for a while. Two or three of the snails have large “colonies” on them, and a few others have ju