I ordered several turbo snails from a store and they sent me this instead of one of them. To me it clearly looks like a whelk - I have a number of nassarius snails and this is substantially larger than them. It also has the lurching gait that you'd expect from a whelk (as opposed to the gliding of a nassarius).
I emailed the store and asked them to identify it - they said that they'd run out of turbo snails so they sent me this instead. They didn't seem to know exactly what it is but they insisted that it had been a good algae eater for them.
It's in my QT right now because I'm worried it will eat the other snails - am I right to be concerned? Is this a predatory whelk?
I emailed the store and asked them to identify it - they said that they'd run out of turbo snails so they sent me this instead. They didn't seem to know exactly what it is but they insisted that it had been a good algae eater for them.
It's in my QT right now because I'm worried it will eat the other snails - am I right to be concerned? Is this a predatory whelk?