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Hey folks.
I ordered five crabs from live aquaria but when they got here two turned out to be snails. I was wondering if I could get an ID on these guys.
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Hard to tell on the first one. Might be a cerith. Typically, two common ceriths one is brown with smooth-ish speckled shell, the other is florida cerith with grey/black shell that is rough/bumpy.

The second pic looks like a whelk to me. If it has kind of a periscope snout/tube going up from the front, it's probably a whelk. Lots of different whelks, but often they are predators that will eat other snails.

To be safe, take them both out and put in your sump.
 

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