CONE SNAIL?

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Found this guy when I put live rock in my tank and it's been a month before I finally was able to see again and get a real good look at him this time...so I grabbed my tweezers and out him in the breeder to be safe. I want to remove him because I believe he is the bad cone and not the good. Does anybody have any input for me? Stay, Go? Good, Bad? Etc, Etc..

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lol, no not a cone snail, you have a bumble bee snail and an astrea snail
 
bumblebee snails eat invertebrates like vermetid snails (which is good) but also can predate other snails, they are one of the on the fence snails
 
Bumble bees not fully trustworthy.
They clean away detritus, including uneaten meaty foods and decomposing organisms. This tiny member of the Buccinidae family also burrows into your sand bed, consumes sand-dwelling worms, and helps aerate your substrate.
BUT . . . . . The Bumble Bee Snail is a carnivore. If there is insufficient food, the Bumble Bee Snail may feed on other snails in your aquarium or indiscriminately consume polychaetes whether beneficial or the more troublesome bristleworm. In well-established systems, most Bumble Bee Snails do not require supplemental feeding. However, if sufficient food sources are unavailable, supplement their diet with offerings of meaty foods, including finely chopped brine or mysis shrimp and frozen meaty foods.
 
Thank you Everybody! I did clean up some more algae in my tank and cleaned the coral of algae and it looks so much better. I will post pics when the light is in daylight mode. It is currently in sunset mode and pretty dim. Here is what is looks like now and I will post one or two tomorrow. One in sunset mode, one with flash, and one close up with flash.
 

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Bumble bees not fully trustworthy.
They clean away detritus, including uneaten meaty foods and decomposing organisms. This tiny member of the Buccinidae family also burrows into your sand bed, consumes sand-dwelling worms, and helps aerate your substrate.
BUT . . . . . The Bumble Bee Snail is a carnivore. If there is insufficient food, the Bumble Bee Snail may feed on other snails in your aquarium or indiscriminately consume polychaetes whether beneficial or the more troublesome bristleworm. In well-established systems, most Bumble Bee Snails do not require supplemental feeding. However, if sufficient food sources are unavailable, supplement their diet with offerings of meaty foods, including finely chopped brine or mysis shrimp and frozen meaty foods.
Thank You very much for the info! I currently feed frozen shrimp brine which I use tank water in a shot glass to dissolve before adding to the tank. I usually do this every other day. I usually feed a variety of other foods on the off days of the brine, being an assortment of these foods(mysis shrimp, blood worms, flakes, tubiflex worms, and occasionally a couple shrimp pellets) being I only have the Maroon Clown, Domino Damsel and Algae Blenny. 3 Nems, 1 coral, Bristle star, the snails, and I believe I have a bad Nem that came from the rocks...not sure. I'll get a good pic tomorrow with better light for confirmation.
 

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