Help ID Random Baby Snail

[1stPhantom]

So I went to feed my tank and seen a baby snail I have 2 turbo snail 2 astrea snails 2 sand shifting snails and a Babylon snail I have no clue where this little guy came from or how he survived with the amount of inverts I have please help ID I don’t know what this is and haven’t added anything in a month or 2

 

[tbrown]

That looks like a whelk of some variety. Was it in th sand or on the glass?

@ISpeakForTheSeas ?

 

[1stPhantom]

It was on a rock with my ducan around the middle section

 

[tbrown]

Some whelks are predatory and can/will hunt other snails and eat them. Not sure if that is a predatory or a good one.

 

[1stPhantom]

Some whelks are predatory and can/will hunt other snails and eat them. Not sure if that is a predatory or a good one.

Some whelks are predatory and can/will hunt other snails and eat them. Not sure if that is a predatory or a good one.

So how fast do they grow all other snail I forgot my 2 margarita snails as well there all pretty big or would that not matter

 

[tbrown]

Depends on the variety I suppose. Nassarius (probably what your sand sifting snails are) are also whelks but they're good whelks.

I believe whelks are meat eaters rather than algae eaters so they eat leftover meaty food or dead/decaying stuff in the sand or hunt for meaty foods like other snails.

 

[1stPhantom]

Depends on the variety I suppose. Nassarius (probably what your sand sifting snails are) are also whelks but they're good whelks.

I believe whelks are meat eaters rather than algae eaters so they eat leftover meaty food or dead/decaying stuff in the sand or hunt for meaty foods like other snails.

Ok thank you for the information I’m going to run the risk it might not survive because I have hermit crabs starting that size all the way up to a a little smaller than a 50 cent piece size ones

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

That looks like a whelk of some variety. Was it in th sand or on the glass?

@ISpeakForTheSeas ?

Look up Euplica scripta (it has a lot of color variations, so look at a bunch of different images to compare with) and see if that seems to be a match.