tiny snails

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Terry, Over the course of the next year you will likely encounter all kinds of things in your reef that you haven't seen yet that only come out at night. Keep your flashlight handy and have fun discovering a whole new world. This takes me back to when I started and spent many a late night fascinated with the live rock coming to life. Welcome to the wonderful world of Salt Water.

Eb0la11 -Anyone have more input on that? Do mandarins eat these snails along with pods?

I think it unlikely they will eat the snails and as hard as it is to be patient I would wait. Mandarins can sometimes be trained to eat frozen but it is not an easy task, I've never had luck with it. You may have what seems like a lot of pods however mandarins are prone to eat the pod larvae more than the actual pods so this is one of the reasons you need a well established reef. You need enough pods to keep up the population despite loosing a high rate of their offspring.