Quick snail ID please

[3mm3]

Hello just looking for ID on this guy that tried to sneak in.
Is this a nassarius a whelk or something else. Would hate to kill it for no reason.

 

[3mm3]

 

[Mike N]

Nassarius

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Looks like a nassarius to me. If it buries itself immediately, its a nassarius. If it doesn't and stays out on the rocks and and glass, it's something else. The tail looks alot like a nassarius snail's with the little forked part. His rostrum or snout also doesn't have the blotchly look of a whelk and it's super long like a nassarius's.

 

[3mm3]

Quick note, this guy is fast.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Quick note, this guy is fast.

Mine are pretty fast too, for snails. They also leave behind the mother of all slime trails.

 

[3mm3]

Nassarius

Looks like a nassarius to me. If it buries itself immediately, its a nassarius. If it doesn't and stays out on the rocks and and glass, it's something else. The tail looks alot like a nassarius snail's with the little forked part. His rostrum or snout also doesn't have the blotchly look of a whelk and it's super long like a nassarius's.

Thanks guys was leaning this way but better safe to ask then just plop it in. Plus I only have jumbo tongan nassarius and the comparison wasn't working too well..

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Thanks guys was leaning this way but better safe to ask then just plop it in. Plus I only have jumbo tongan nassarius and the comparison wasn't working too well..

Happy to help!

 

[AquarEON]

Nassarius snails are sand sifters you should keep

 

[3mm3]

Just a quick update. I was really leaning towards this being a nassarius but he sure wasn't acting like one. Completely avoided the sand and kept hunting down the larger snails and climbing onto them.
I tossed it out.