Found this snail on top of my dead dragonette that I only had for 3 days and it was eating frozen and i stocked my tank with 5000+ pods everyday so there is no way it could have starved is this thing a whelk? It has that armour plate on its tail
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Okay thank you yea the dragonette looked stressed out from the day I got him and would barley hunt pods and would only eat what I was spot feeding himMy experience, I only trust the small nassarius. The large ones have gone after other snails. Verified they were Nassarius too.
But they won't attack a healthy living fish. Something happened to it, not snail related.
Contrary to the (otherwise great) article from Melev's Reef, ALL whelks have an operculum on their tail, not just the predatory ones. (Nassarius are a type of whelk...)It has that armour plate on its tail