Id this snail please. reef sps eater or not

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is this a good or bad guy. tiny ones found a few in Qt sps tank few weeks back. now a bit larger and more of them showing up.

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Looks like Nassarius snail usually they are sand cleaners
 
is this a good or bad guy. tiny ones found a few in Qt sps tank few weeks back. now a bit larger and more of them showing up.

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Euplica scripta; good snail:
Yeah, this is probably the Dotted/Lettered Dove Snail, Euplica scripta - it's a keeper if so:
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.
Interesting, and I stand corrected here - Euplica scripta is apparently primarily a sea grass-epiphytic algae-eater;* so it feeds primarily on algae that grows on sea grass; interestingly, this makes them (and a few other common Columbellids) quite different dietarily than the vast majority of their relatives.**

Cool!

*Source:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21002727**Source:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9636871/
 
more pics and as i mentioned appears to be increasing in numbers .


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