MIXED IN CRITTER, reef safe?

[genkireefer]

hey guys
i bought some gold-ring/money cowries at the meeting and this one was mixed in. it looks like Cypraea errones by color and shape of shell, number and color of teeth and color and texture of mantle, antenae, and proboscis.
hopefully i'm correct.
i can't find any kind of information on the internet about this guy other than where he comes from. i'd like to know if he's reef safe. anyone have a clue?
thanks everyone, michelle

 

[GinaD]

#2 looks like a chiton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiton

 

[fanaglethebagle]

Its definitly a cowrie, I donno, some people have had experience with zoa eating ones

 

[JeremyR]

Is it one of the ones you picked out? Hehe.

 

[genkireefer]

haha yeah! lol well his mantle was fully extended and i couldn't see his gold ring! (in defense of my stupidity)
anyway, the pocketexpert Marine Invertebrates book states the money cowrie and its close relatives as reef safe and very very good detritivores/herbivores. only info i found.
anybody know anything else???
i have extended the challenge! lol

 

[genkireefer]

anyone? come on you guys!

 

[scavdog]

Michelle,

Did you try the sea slug forum?

http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=cowries

-Joe

 

[genkireefer]

they didn't have a fact sheet on the particular species i was looking for... only a blurb about the cowrie family.
and the dude is not accepting messages at this point.
thanks for the suggestion though. they do have a huge amount of information on everything else.

 

[JeremyR]

I'm getting another pack of them next week, you want all the oddballs? hehehe.

 

[genkireefer]

lol thanks for the offer but no... the idea of the weird guy munching away at my bam bams or blasto is haunting me.
no idea what they are?
the money cowries are doing wonderfully! CLEANED UP THE PATCH OF CYANO in the back that i could never get rid of (low flow area or something) very very impressive. i watched them eat it. *happy dance*