Wyomingite
Aquarium Advice Freak
First post over here in the Salties forum. 
Started a FOWLR tank several weeks ago. Been cyclin' and I've seen a few interestin' critters from the live rock; stomatella, amphipods, starfish, bristle stars, some tube worms on the rock, and an assortment of snails. Some of the base rock I used was old, dead pieces of live rock I had from an attempt at a reef tank 20 years ago, and it was in a brackish tank. I hosed it down, scrubbed it with a brush, and cleaned it well before puttin' it in this tank.
Specific gravity is 1.026 (32 ppm salinity), I want to get it down to 1.024 when the cycle is finished and I do a water change. Regardless, this guy showed up, and for the life of me it looks like a Malaysian trumpet snail. I've kept MTS in brackish tanks before, but I didn't think they could survive above 'bout 25 ppm salinity/1.020 specific gravity. I've dug into a large number of research papers on the topic, and they all agree that this is the threshold salinity limit on MTS survival.
So can anybody tell me what this MTS look-alike is?
Seriously, I'm hopin' there's some marine snail out there that is an MTS look alike and that this is something else, though as tough as those b******* are it wouldn't surprise me one bit if this an MTS stowaway that I missed on the rock I moved from my brackish tank.
WYite
Started a FOWLR tank several weeks ago. Been cyclin' and I've seen a few interestin' critters from the live rock; stomatella, amphipods, starfish, bristle stars, some tube worms on the rock, and an assortment of snails. Some of the base rock I used was old, dead pieces of live rock I had from an attempt at a reef tank 20 years ago, and it was in a brackish tank. I hosed it down, scrubbed it with a brush, and cleaned it well before puttin' it in this tank.Specific gravity is 1.026 (32 ppm salinity), I want to get it down to 1.024 when the cycle is finished and I do a water change. Regardless, this guy showed up, and for the life of me it looks like a Malaysian trumpet snail. I've kept MTS in brackish tanks before, but I didn't think they could survive above 'bout 25 ppm salinity/1.020 specific gravity. I've dug into a large number of research papers on the topic, and they all agree that this is the threshold salinity limit on MTS survival.
So can anybody tell me what this MTS look-alike is?
Seriously, I'm hopin' there's some marine snail out there that is an MTS look alike and that this is something else, though as tough as those b******* are it wouldn't surprise me one bit if this an MTS stowaway that I missed on the rock I moved from my brackish tank.
WYite
