Queen conches reportedly do not do the under-the-sand thing. Also I have heard that you cannot import them anymore. Lastly, I doubt they would be that cheap. So I would doubt that what Big Al's is selling is truly a queen. I can confirm they get large, I have a shell of one that is over a foot in length.
I mentioned to Tony at Jon's that I doubt that any of the conches we buy as queen/fighting/whatever are truly that species.
I wonder if Big Al's is selling nassarius snails as conches. I can see it happening.
Queen conch: http://www.gastropods.com/7/Shell_217.html
Other conches: http://www.gastropods.com/Taxon_pages/Common_Names.html
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Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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