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I have a sunny d that wasn't looking so hot, and so I decided to fresh water dip it and see what would happen, and these little guys ended up falling off. So I took a couple of my other frags and then did a reef dip on them and I saw some more, mostly I saw them crawling on the actual frag itself, not the zoas, but does anyone know what these are? I'm afraid they're what might be "eating" my sunny d, because when I dipped that one the most fell off that frag.

& ignore the dish lol... but there's the big one at the top of the dish, then all those little ones too. Those were ALL on the sunny d, because I dipped the others in a bucket with reef dip. They kinda have snail like bottoms but they don't look like snails... and I tried to google it with hitchhiker id guides and stuff and I can't find anything that looks like them.
 

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Sort of hard to tell with the pic (I know how big of a PITA it is to get pics os tiny stuff), but from your description possibly limpets.

And the dish is well suited..it has a mermaid on it..lol
 
The big one looks a bit like a chiton, which are usually fine to have. But it is really hard to tell.
 
I don't think it's either lol. We have chitons we bought in the other tank we have and they don't look anything like those. And limpets have a more triangular shell from what I've researched, and we also have those in the tank.

I really would like to think they are not bad, but until I know what they are it's hard to know :( We dip all our new corals before putting them in the tank so it wouldn't make sense as to something bad being in there, but I know things can happen. I have found a couple nudibranches in there before, the bright orange ones, and gotten them out as soon as I saw them.

But then if those AREN'T bad things, I have no idea what is getting at my sunny d's!
 

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