Barnacles on Mexican Turbo? Safe or remove?

[LostNemo]

Just got some Mexican Turbos a few days ago and just noticed one of them has what seems to be barnacles on it.

Curious if this is ok to keep on them or if I should clip the barnacles off or just remove the entire snail.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

It should be fine to leave the barnacles there:

Yeah, that's a barnacle. I'm not aware of any snail-parasitic barnacles, so it's probably a harmless filter-feeder (and it will probably die off on it's own soon unless you're dosing phyto and pods to the tank).

 

[JGT]

Kinda cool. I’d leave it.

 

[LostNemo]

It should be fine to leave the barnacles there:

That’s good thanks

 

[kevgib67]

Ya, that’s really unique and interesting, I’d definitely leave it or ship it to me.