Can you have too many stomatella?

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I recently added a dozen or so nudis and was doing some lights out peeping. I couldn't find them, but I apparently have hundreds and hundreds of stomatella snails. Are they going to starve out my urchins? I know they are the good guys, but, is there too much of a good thing?
 
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great. Their populations scales up to the food supply in the tank.
Urchins have ability to eat tougher algae, and I would not think stomatella can starve them.
 

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They will dye back as their preferred food sources disappear. Also most of those look like babies which have a very very high mortality rate
 

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