Baby Snail looking thing!(Solved: Keyhole Limpet)

anyone tell me what this is? i do have some Astraea snails and it does look like one of them had there shell jacked by a hermit. is it possible this is him? will he survive like this?







Thanks

 

I have sight issues. Google keyhole limpets and tell me if that's what you have.

 

yeah thats close enough to what i have. and according to Live Aquaria they can munch on SPS, so good buy little guy!

 

I have a ton of them in my sps tank. There are a lot of different types the vast majority harmless I would think. I myself would not get rid of it unless you saw coral damage.

 

I don't worry about them. I don't consider them a pest like Acropora Eating Flatworms, Red Bugs, Monti-Eating Flatworms, etc.

I'm more of a "live and let live" kinda guy. Last Sunday at the fish store a customer said of a decorator crab we had for sale, "Why would you have a decorator crab. It has a good 20 zoanthids on it?" My attitude is, they're all alive aren't they? If a slow-moving crab RELOCATES 20 polyps out of 600, I honestly don't care. If Keyhole limpets are starving, they may, or may not munch on SPS polyps. They aren't going to make enough difference in my tank for me to even care. The ones you need to watch out for are listed in my first paragraph.