What are these snails?

Lakelivin

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A few months ago I had an explosion of baby snails. There are easily a couple hundred of them. They are growing and eating everything including coralline algae off my rocks. I can live with that because the coralline grows back.

They do crawl on some of my corals but I can't really tell if they are eating the corals or just eating microscopic algae off from them.

I also see a number of small white dots on the glass and rocks. I can't say they are eating the coral but they are probably annoying them.

Can anyone identify them and tell me if I should let them be or start removing them by hand to at least reduce their numbers.

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They could be the mini florida ceriths, if so, they won't get much bigger than that. Still harmless, will even dig though your sand bed, which is healthy.
 
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