Reef Aquarium Information - Brett’s Reef

 
  I had planned on talking about laminar flow this blog but an important issue was brought to my attention the other night about my Beneficial Reef Aquarium Snail article.  I had a post in the article about the Ilyanassa Obsoleta snail and how it was a good detritus cleaner and scavenger.  It turns out […]

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  The Sundail snail is a common reef aquarium predator that feeds on zoanthid polyps.  These snails are not much bigger than pyramid snails and as you can tell from the picture have unique marking.  As you can see in the picture these snails have a neat little rattle “tail” that resembles one of a […]

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  Pictured above on the dime is a couple of pyram snails or pyramid snails.  These cute little fellas can cause a whole heck of a problem in your reef tank if you keep clams, starfish and larger snails such as astrea snails.  There are different types of pyramid snails the ones shown on the dime […]

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  Many people are used to seeing grey/silver snails in the marine reef aquarium but are not used to seeing black saltwater snails in there tanks.  Reef aquariums with live rock can sometimes have a whole slew of hitchhikers in them. Sometimes they are not seen for the first few weeks but they eventually come out, especially […]

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