Little Snails? Or Grape Calpura?

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  1. OverThinker

    OverThinker Skunk Shrimp

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    So my LFS sold me some grape calpura, warned me it spread rapidly but to just pull it out, that the herbivores would graze on it.

    Fine and dandy until I read all these horror stories about the BLOB grape calpura taking over your whole tank and spreading. So I took it all out.

    But now I notice there are all these little "bugs" all over my rocks. They look like MINATURE snails, and they are the color of the calpura plant.

    Wondering if these are the seeds, but they are moving so I think I may have picked up a hitchiker?
     
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  3. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    no most plants dont move lol
     
  4. ReefSparky

    ReefSparky Super Moderator

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    How about a picture?
     
  5. OverThinker

    OverThinker Skunk Shrimp

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    I will try..

    I'll try to get a picture if I see them again. They are seriously like the size of a needle head. They kinda look like little hermits with the cone shaped shell. They were all over the rock where the GC was. This morning I can't find them. Maybe they are night crawlers. I will keep an eye out, the only reason I noticed them was because one was crawling on my glass. Then I looked closer and saw like 10 of them.

    Ya know, I don't even think I could get a picture, they are so small.
     
  6. Optimist

    Optimist Peppermint Shrimp

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    They are night crawlers. My rocks get covered in them at night. They come in most macro with a bunch of other hitch-hikers. Mine had little serpent looking starfish and pods gallore too.