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Every so often this thing crawls out of a rock and produces what can only be called smoke.  It puffs along for about a minute every 10 seconds.

 

its maybe the size of a typical shirt button except elongated.

 

what the heck is it?

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It looks like a stomatella snail to me. They are harmless and pretty good CUC members. I have them in my tank but have never seen them "smoke". When you say "smoke" do you mean it is releasing something into the water? 

Yup, definitely a spawning stomatella. They're great hitchhikers, and they can reproduce prolifically.

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Agreed, they’re stomatella.  I had 1 with a beautiful pink iridescent shell that eventually multiplied to like 15-20.  After my little spout with cyano, I managed to lose all of them to peroxide.  Now looks like limpets are taking their place

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