Help with ID Please
- Thread starter mntcfish
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jstdv8
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what exactly are we looking at here? What I see kinda looks like pineapple sponges. kinda fuzzy pic though. would help if we could get a little zoom
jamesvishiou
Member
Yeah, it's just some snails and a pineapple sponge. The sponge is harmless.
mntcfish
Member
sorry tried to get a closer zoom but it became blurry. Thanks for the help. I have another question - I have tiny sized (about 2 mm) clear looking (bugs) with skinny bodies and antennas, is the best way to describe them that crawl all over my live rock. I've tried taking a pic of them but they are to small and fast. Does anyone have an idea or experience of identifying these. Thanks for your help, or better yet if you have an idea of what they could be - upload a pic and I can try and eliminate - I have scoured the net and still can't find them. Just hope that they are not flesh eating. I've had a clown for about 1 month now and he is unaffected so I think I'm safe. Thanks for the help
speg
Active Member
Sounds like pods.
Do a google image search for copepods and amphipods. Amphipods are more than likely the ones you're seeing. Copepods are more visible early, right as you turn the lights on.
If this is the case, and it most likely is, they're beneficial and everybody does or should have these swimming/crawling around in their fish tanks.
Do a google image search for copepods and amphipods. Amphipods are more than likely the ones you're seeing. Copepods are more visible early, right as you turn the lights on.
If this is the case, and it most likely is, they're beneficial and everybody does or should have these swimming/crawling around in their fish tanks.