Is it my imagination or are Saddleback puffers eating Vermetid snails?

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At first, I thought it was my imagination.

Today completed a 90 QT for two Saddleback puffers. I acclimated and placed them in a 125 gallon.

After a few minutes of introducing themselves to the other tank inhabitants, they began exploring the rock work, and have been picking at a patch of Vermetid snails on the underside of a rock arch.

I know that other puffer fish like to eat inverts and clams, so I'm wondering if these two guys will be cleaning up my Vermetid snails?
 
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So happy to hear this feedback. Of what I know about puffer fish, it makes sense to me that they would be predators to Vermetid snails.
 

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