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Sorry about glass algae, lights are off and flashlight really shows all that glass algae off lol.

Comes into focus properly near the end
 
Looks like stomatta with that mouth and large foot. Big keeper.
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Yes it seems that way. I found some really small snails on the glass a while ago people suggested could be those. Looks like they grew up lol?

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This small one looks like a collonista snail. They don't get very big at all.
 
I need a clear pic is possible. Fuzzy foot could be abalone. Also shell texture.
I put the lights on white for a minute and saw all sorts of critters I’ve not seen in there before. I’ll send pictures

Last pic are those starfish or hydroids? Also in the video
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I put the lights on white for a minute and saw all sorts of critters I’ve not seen in there before. I’ll send pictures

Last pic are those starfish or hydroids? Also in the video
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Amphipods crawling on glass. Stomatella top pic. Those are starfish. Anyway you can pull one from tank to get a close up?
 
Amphipods crawling on glass. Stomatella top pic. Those are starfish. Anyway you can pull one from tank to get a close up?
Hmm not as of right now, but I doubt they will move much so I can take one out in the morning, why what are you thinking they are? Seems to be a bloom of all sorts of new creatures, I'm hoping that's a good sign of maturity. Those small white things that I have literally hundreds of on the back panel are snails too, correct?
 
Hmm not as of right now, but I doubt they will move much so I can take one out in the morning, why what are you thinking they are? Seems to be a bloom of all sorts of new creatures, I'm hoping that's a good sign of maturity. Those small white things that I have literally hundreds of on the back panel are snails too, correct?
Color form to id if safe or pest. Not all of them are reef friendly. If you don't have coral right now, you're safe.
 
The small white things are spirobids. Stationary animals- I forget if they're snails or worms. Same difference, in this case. They don't move, they filter-feed, they stay tiny, they surge in new but biodiverse tanks and then fade out to some extent.
 
Color form to id if safe or pest. Not all of them are reef friendly. If you don't have coral right now, you're safe.
Okay so getting the camera to focus on this thing was near impossible.

I pulled out what looks like a single leg (already seperate from the main body) which is my assumption on how they reproduce. I didn’t pull the main body out in case it’s a good guy and I don’t want to get rid of it if there aren’t anymore.

Ita brown in colour outside of the tank, by the looks of it.

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Okay so getting the camera to focus on this thing was near impossible.

I pulled out what looks like a single leg (already seperate from the main body) which is my assumption on how they reproduce. I didn’t pull the main body out in case it’s a good guy and I don’t want to get rid of it if there aren’t anymore.

Ita brown in colour outside of the tank, by the looks of it.

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Stomatella snail and asterina star
 
Stomatella- Superb algae eater and the star. . . I trust a politician more than I trust them- They will eat zoa and multiply like mice
 

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