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All these years, yet here's a first

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If you follow my blog, you know I like all things tiny. So I'm always looking for small things in my reef. Today I saw a squiggly thing and didn't recognize it. Was it even alive? Was it fish poop? Look up at that thing, I looked down on the substrate beneath to see if I could find "the other half" of whatever it might be.

Turns out it was a snail, but I've never seen one without the shell. There was a large Astrea shell on the sandbed for the past couple of days, and I attributed the lacking living part to some hungry hermits or maybe one of my wrasses. So to see this animal still alive working the upper rim of the reef was pretty surprising. I wonder if I can put the snail back with his shell, would it get back into it?

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  1. brotherd's Avatar
    That's a first for me. Any idea what would cause it to dump its shell?