Snail ID. Behaviour I've never seen before.

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Hi all.

My first post here but been lurking a while.

Please ignore the water cloudiness in the video as I had just fed the corals some reef roids/amino mix. After feeding I noticed one of my snails hanging from the return nozzle like spiderman. :face-with-tears-of-joy: Before I got a chance to film I witnessed him lower himself down from the return nozzle slowly, at first I thought he was falling off but he lowered himself down bit by bit, kind of hung there in the water column for a good 3 or 4 minutes and then reeled himself back up on to the return nozzle.

Anyone had similiar experience or know the ID of this fella? I thought he looked like one of my many nassarius snails but I've never seen them do this before.

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Any images? (can't view the video)
Apologies for the quality. Photos of a video didn't turn out all that good.
Couple in there just to show you how it was hanging/suspended.

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definitely not a nassarius, looks more like a dove snail (Columbellidae) or nano conch (Strombus Maculatus) but it could be something else. most snails will do something weird from time to time.
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