Unknown Casing and Pest on Coral

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Removed this coral. Had the shell look like casing on it and that little critter fell out. Good or bad?

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Looks like a vermetid snail. I would generally say it is bad no matter what but there are some types that aren’t as harmful as most
Thanks. And I think the small critter is an amphipod.
 

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