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Been finding more and more of these and small white spots on my coralline algae, as well as my cyphastrea. Anyone know what these are?

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+1 - That's a limpet. They're related to snails, and feed by scraping the rock with a radula, as algae-eating snails do. The difference is that limpets' teeth are, IIRC, the hardest biological substance known, so they can scrape pretty hard!

Chitons have a jointed carapace - like a knight in plate-mail armor.

~Bruce
 
Thanks guys, definitely not eggs. The white spots are the same size and shape of the limpet and are pretty clearly removed coral/algae. I'm guessing they hit the cyphastrea accidentally or inadvertently. Either way, I'll grab some pix of the spots for reference
 

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