Snail ID?!

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Hi team! Any idea what this guy is ? I'm thinking Turbo fluctuosus. He came attached to a piece of candy cane coral. Extremely slow mover but he is doing ABSOLUTE work on my LR diatoms! Would recommend.

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Hi team! Any idea what this guy is ? I'm thinking Turbo fluctuosus. He came attached to a piece of candy cane coral. Extremely slow mover but he is doing ABSOLUTE work on my LR diatoms! Would recommend.

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Limpet maybe ? Hard to see in the pic
 
haha no! He camouflages very well but it's the big snail you can see there with the algae on his shell, def not thinking it's a limpet
Limpets can get pretty big. I have a few well over an inch long. Here a link to some pics....the more I look at it, the more it looks like a limpet. Definitely not a Mexican turbo. It looks like it has the telltale ‘ruffle’ of a limpet.

 
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Here’s another pic
 

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Looks like an astrea snail
 
Here’s another pic
I can get a better picture tomorrow but his shell is spiraled with what resembles horns (lack of a better term). He doesn't look like a limpet to me but who knows . All I know is he's my best worker , even at his own pace
 

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I can get a better picture tomorrow but his shell is spiraled with what resembles horns (lack of a better term). He doesn't look like a limpet to me but who knows . All I know is he's my best worker , even at his own pace
Pic too blue
 
I can get a better picture tomorrow but his shell is spiraled with what resembles horns (lack of a better term). He doesn't look like a limpet to me but who knows . All I know is he's my best worker , even at his own pace
Agree it looks different from that angle.
 

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