Hard little white dots
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flower
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Originally Posted by wen tom http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534452
So, early on (4-6 mo's) saw little white dots come out at night, I'm going "great, here come the pods!) now (6 mo's later) as I research, these are not all pods, many are hard and stuck! Like a little white barnacle! Any ideas? Thanks guys!
Along with copepods, there are amphipods (look like tiny shrimps)...Isopods (looks like bugs) they only come out at night.... and then there are snail eggs. I have them all over the back glass where I don't use a mag-float. A razor even the plastic ones, will scrape them off, I have baby snails all over the tank now...I took a magnifier and I actually see their little shells. At any rate I don't think it's anything to have to worry about.
Originally Posted by wen tom http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534452
So, early on (4-6 mo's) saw little white dots come out at night, I'm going "great, here come the pods!) now (6 mo's later) as I research, these are not all pods, many are hard and stuck! Like a little white barnacle! Any ideas? Thanks guys!
Along with copepods, there are amphipods (look like tiny shrimps)...Isopods (looks like bugs) they only come out at night.... and then there are snail eggs. I have them all over the back glass where I don't use a mag-float. A razor even the plastic ones, will scrape them off, I have baby snails all over the tank now...I took a magnifier and I actually see their little shells. At any rate I don't think it's anything to have to worry about.
bang guy
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Quote:Originally Posted by wen tom http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534452
So, early on (4-6 mo's) saw little white dots come out at night, I'm going "great, here come the pods!) now (6 mo's later) as I research, these are not all pods, many are hard and stuck! Like a little white barnacle! Any ideas? Thanks guys!
Sounds like Spirorbidae Worms.
So, early on (4-6 mo's) saw little white dots come out at night, I'm going "great, here come the pods!) now (6 mo's later) as I research, these are not all pods, many are hard and stuck! Like a little white barnacle! Any ideas? Thanks guys!
Sounds like Spirorbidae Worms.
flower
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Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534465
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Originally Posted by wen tom http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534452
So, early on (4-6 mo's) saw little white dots come out at night, I'm going "great, here come the pods!) now (6 mo's later) as I research, these are not all pods, many are hard and stuck! Like a little white barnacle! Any ideas? Thanks guys!
Sounds like Spirorbidae Worms.
LOL...Another worm that I can neither pronounce or will remember how to spell. can you tell us something about them? Are they harmless, do they attach themselves to slow moving critters, such as snails or seahorses?
Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534465
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Originally Posted by wen tom http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534452
So, early on (4-6 mo's) saw little white dots come out at night, I'm going "great, here come the pods!) now (6 mo's later) as I research, these are not all pods, many are hard and stuck! Like a little white barnacle! Any ideas? Thanks guys!
Sounds like Spirorbidae Worms.
LOL...Another worm that I can neither pronounce or will remember how to spell. can you tell us something about them? Are they harmless, do they attach themselves to slow moving critters, such as snails or seahorses?
bang guy
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Quote:Originally Posted by Flower http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534466
LOL...Another worm that I can neither pronounce or will remember how to spell. can you tell us something about them? Are they harmless, do they attach themselves to slow moving critters, such as snails or seahorses?
If I had any in my tank I would sleep with one eye open.
LOL...Another worm that I can neither pronounce or will remember how to spell. can you tell us something about them? Are they harmless, do they attach themselves to slow moving critters, such as snails or seahorses?
If I had any in my tank I would sleep with one eye open.
flower
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Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534467
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Originally Posted by Flower http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534466
LOL...Another worm that I can neither pronounce or will remember how to spell. can you tell us something about them? Are they harmless, do they attach themselves to slow moving critters, such as snails or seahorses?
If I had any in my tank I would sleep with one eye open.
I have them all over....elaborate please, do I have a problem?
Originally Posted by Bang Guy http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534467
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Originally Posted by Flower http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534466
LOL...Another worm that I can neither pronounce or will remember how to spell. can you tell us something about them? Are they harmless, do they attach themselves to slow moving critters, such as snails or seahorses?
If I had any in my tank I would sleep with one eye open.
I have them all over....elaborate please, do I have a problem?
silverado61
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That's it Bang Guy. Freak the lady out. Lol.
I've got them all over the back of my glass. I thought my snails would eat some of them but they just pass right over them. Now I'm getting them on my rock. I'm hoping my urchins will develop a taste for them. There not bad but there kind of a nuisance.
BTW wen tom, you shouldn't be cleaning your sand. I read your other thread.
I've got them all over the back of my glass. I thought my snails would eat some of them but they just pass right over them. Now I'm getting them on my rock. I'm hoping my urchins will develop a taste for them. There not bad but there kind of a nuisance.
BTW wen tom, you shouldn't be cleaning your sand. I read your other thread.
wen tom
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You guys crack me up. OK. got it, (along with a chuckle.) Can't thank you enough. While dots are nowhere near as prolific with an always eating lemon peel, but at least it doesn't nip the corals! Wonder how many of my pods its eating! Thanks for letting me know about the sand (kinda embarrassing) wonder why my LFS sold it with everything. It is, after all, a gravel cleaner. Ah well, another lesson of- do my own research myself. (sure are a lot of them!). Thanks SO much guys.
flower
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Originally Posted by wen tom http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534518
You guys crack me up. OK. got it, (along with a chuckle.) Can't thank you enough. While dots are nowhere near as prolific with an always eating lemon peel, but at least it doesn't nip the corals! Wonder how many of my pods its eating! Thanks for letting me know about the sand (kinda embarrassing) wonder why my LFS sold it with everything. It is, after all, a gravel cleaner. Ah well, another lesson of- do my own research myself. (sure are a lot of them!). Thanks SO much guys.
Sankeblitz (and he knows his stuff) said he had vacuumed his sand, but later changed I think to a a bare bottom tank. (Now for a time he is getting out of the hobby altogether.) I personally wouldn't clean my sand either, and I believe it's true that you could release toxins, the CUC does feed on it, and it removes good bacteria that keeps the tank water balanced...but it's not unheard of. I just think it's just a bunch of extra work that isn't needed.
I kept freshwater tanks for years, let me tell you...having a SW tank where the CUC actually does it's job, make it worth it's very heavy weight in gold to me....vacuuming and cleaning the tank was a huge PAIN in the back. I love just doing a partial water change and calling it done.
Oh...and one of those hard dots attached itself to one of my Kuda seahorses nose for a long time, it didn't seem to mind, it reminded me of an ugly wart on a witch (gone now). LOL...that's why I believed Bang when he said to keep an eye on things...
Originally Posted by wen tom http:///t/396690/hard-little-white-dots#post_3534518
You guys crack me up. OK. got it, (along with a chuckle.) Can't thank you enough. While dots are nowhere near as prolific with an always eating lemon peel, but at least it doesn't nip the corals! Wonder how many of my pods its eating! Thanks for letting me know about the sand (kinda embarrassing) wonder why my LFS sold it with everything. It is, after all, a gravel cleaner. Ah well, another lesson of- do my own research myself. (sure are a lot of them!). Thanks SO much guys.
Sankeblitz (and he knows his stuff) said he had vacuumed his sand, but later changed I think to a a bare bottom tank. (Now for a time he is getting out of the hobby altogether.) I personally wouldn't clean my sand either, and I believe it's true that you could release toxins, the CUC does feed on it, and it removes good bacteria that keeps the tank water balanced...but it's not unheard of. I just think it's just a bunch of extra work that isn't needed.
I kept freshwater tanks for years, let me tell you...having a SW tank where the CUC actually does it's job, make it worth it's very heavy weight in gold to me....vacuuming and cleaning the tank was a huge PAIN in the back. I love just doing a partial water change and calling it done.
Oh...and one of those hard dots attached itself to one of my Kuda seahorses nose for a long time, it didn't seem to mind, it reminded me of an ugly wart on a witch (gone now). LOL...that's why I believed Bang when he said to keep an eye on things...