I found what has been eating the valonia outbreak in my tank (pics included)

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So I've had a nasty outbreak of valonia lately. I've removed rocks, manually removed the pieces, and all of that but it just kept spreading. Then one morning I woke up and most of it was gone. For a while I couldn't figure out what had eaten it, then I caught these two guys munching down on the stuff. Some kind of snail and they both seem to really like the stuff. I'm not saying all of them will, but these two have eaten about 85% of them in the tank.

Anyone know what kind of snails these are? I'd love to get some more.

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So I've had a nasty outbreak of valonia lately. I've removed rocks, manually removed the pieces, and all of that but it just kept spreading. Then one morning I woke up and most of it was gone. For a while I couldn't figure out what had eaten it, then I caught these two guys munching down on the stuff. Some kind of snail and they both seem to really like the stuff. I'm not saying all of them will, but these two have eaten about 85% of them in the tank.

Anyone know what kind of snails these are? I'd love to get some more.

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Lucky you, something has really started working on mine too probably my pitho crab putting in work again.
 

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So I've had a nasty outbreak of valonia lately. I've removed rocks, manually removed the pieces, and all of that but it just kept spreading. Then one morning I woke up and most of it was gone. For a while I couldn't figure out what had eaten it, then I caught these two guys munching down on the stuff. Some kind of snail and they both seem to really like the stuff. I'm not saying all of them will, but these two have eaten about 85% of them in the tank.

Anyone know what kind of snails these are? I'd love to get some more.

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+1 common limpet.

 
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Thanks everyone! There's no sign of them reproducing in the tank, but they're certainly chomping down the valonia while leaving other macro algae alone. They also ignore GHA, but nothing's perfect.
 

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