Snail ID?!

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Hi team! Any idea what this guy is ? I'm thinking Turbo fluctuosus. He came attached to a piece of candy cane coral. Extremely slow mover but he is doing ABSOLUTE work on my LR diatoms! Would recommend.

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Hi team! Any idea what this guy is ? I'm thinking Turbo fluctuosus. He came attached to a piece of candy cane coral. Extremely slow mover but he is doing ABSOLUTE work on my LR diatoms! Would recommend.

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Limpet maybe ? Hard to see in the pic
 

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haha no! He camouflages very well but it's the big snail you can see there with the algae on his shell, def not thinking it's a limpet
Limpets can get pretty big. I have a few well over an inch long. Here a link to some pics....the more I look at it, the more it looks like a limpet. Definitely not a Mexican turbo. It looks like it has the telltale ‘ruffle’ of a limpet.

 
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Here’s another pic
 

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Looks like an astrea snail
 
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Here’s another pic
I can get a better picture tomorrow but his shell is spiraled with what resembles horns (lack of a better term). He doesn't look like a limpet to me but who knows . All I know is he's my best worker , even at his own pace
 

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I can get a better picture tomorrow but his shell is spiraled with what resembles horns (lack of a better term). He doesn't look like a limpet to me but who knows . All I know is he's my best worker , even at his own pace
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I can get a better picture tomorrow but his shell is spiraled with what resembles horns (lack of a better term). He doesn't look like a limpet to me but who knows . All I know is he's my best worker , even at his own pace
Agree it looks different from that angle.
 

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