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Please help ID, I think they are snails, hundreds appear tonight. Literally like 200 of them all over

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Idk guys what do you think I’m guessing pyramids snails guessing
 
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Idk guys what do you think I’m guessing pyramids snails guessing
I’m going to hope not and read about them, I don’t have any clams, I had a Zoe colony that came with a few mussels about a year ago but never any snails…. Ugh I hope they are just good snails like Nassarius snails or cerith snails, I also have a few bumble bee snails. Babies maybe?…..
 

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I’m going to hope not and read about them, I don’t have any clams, I had a Zoe colony that came with a few mussels about a year ago but never any snails…. Ugh I hope they are just good snails like Nassarius snails or cerith snails, I also have a few bumble bee snails. Babies maybe?…..
Do they all look like they’re the same size?
 

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Please help ID, I think they are snails, hundreds appear tonight. Literally like 200 of them all over
Any chance you could get some close up pics of one of them under white light?

Pics of the top, the sides, and the bottom can be helpful with ID'ing snails.
 
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Any chance you could get some close up pics of one of them under white light?

Pics of the top, the sides, and the bottom can be helpful with ID'ing snails.
Some from tonight white lights on, hard to get the best pictures but these are better
 

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I don't know what your snails are at the moment - sorry - but I would lean more toward Rissoid snails or similar (funny enough, I didn't read what the second type of snail in your graphic was until after I had arrived at that guess separately), but I don't know for sure.
Also I found this they don’t have ribs sooo… I’m guessing not pyramid snails
Just wanted to add - while graphics like this are good for general ID tips, they're not to be taken as law. For example, the link below has shells from the Pyramid snail family the shells; most of the shells show multiple of these points (like the hooked apex and the ribbing), but not all of them do:
 

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