safe or predator snail?

Marc G-L

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UNS 125 gal tank. UV, fuge with amphi and copepods plus Ulva, GHA and a little red dyno patch.
I bought a few of these ( see video) from my LFS. They called them large snorkel snails. They do remain in the gravel until nighttime, or if feeding tank and a fair amount of particles are generated, they surface. Do great job of moving 3-4 in DSB. Looks like Godzillia pushing up gravel as they rise. Shell shape live an Olive snail but have that long breathing tube. I've unexpectedly lost a few mex turbos, astrea snails and a larger Halloween crab in the past month. All params are stable and with in range except phos. It did hit 0.46.
Got that down with 30% h20 exchange and phosguard. Only worms in tank are a few penut worms on glass and 2 ghost worm planaria 4 months after start up.

 
olive snail, if i were you id take it out, they clean out all the fauna in your sandbed and will definetly go after your clean up crew
 

IF YOU HAD TO OPERATE EVERYTHING ELSE MANUALLY, WHICH AUTOMATED SYSTEM WOULD YOU KEEP?

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