little spermys on my glass

jtroutine

jtroutine

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please excuse the title but that is the best way I can describe it:D Had tank running with lr and ls for about a week, come home today turned on the light and everywhere. Anybody know waht this is...is it bad...good...normal?
 
jtroutine

jtroutine

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Well guess what I was doing some research on a madirin goby to see what kind of care they need, my wife is insisting that we get one down the road. Well I think I just learned what the white thingies on my glass were.....pods! Got to be!! so that is cool they are good then. What is considered mature enough tank for a madrin?
 
barracuda

barracuda

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What is considered mature enough tank for a madrin?
I wouldn't start with mandarin untill your tank reaches 1 year old. That's because Mandarin can deplete pod population very fast and then starve. Some mandarins will eat frozen food, but some will rely on pods only. Because you just cannot ask your mandarin in the LFS what food he prefers :D i suggest you keep out of that fish.
 
sammystingray

sammystingray

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Those with the little white spirals........they are most probably spirorbidae worms. Tiny little filter feeders. Not good or bad.....just there. Some hate them because they have to clean them off the glass, and some like them becuase the fact they are multiplying is a good indication that the plankton supply in the tank will sustain filter feeders.
 
eelfreakrobi

eelfreakrobi

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I would also like to add that the crap of the scallops looks a lot like little spermies that hang from the tank glass mostly.
 
tyr-sog

tyr-sog

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My guys almost look like a very tiny white ants. It has a smallbody with a bigger round one trailing it. My Clown has been eating them up like crazy anyways.
 
killafins

killafins

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You asked how old u should wait until a tank is matured well ur tank is probably never going to be matured enough, honestly. Unless you have fifty pounds of live rock, a little exageration, than you are going to have to have some other food supplies and LOTS of bottom feeders. For the mandarin goby is a very docile and slow eater and say u feed flakes, it is not going to come to the top to get it. Frozen shrimp, okay, it will sink to the goby but the other fish may just get it first, so u put more in and the goby may not eat all the food brougt down, or it may have settled and the mandarin likes to eat moving food. So now u have a bunch of crap on the floor, that's why u need bottom feeders too. Now u try live brine, well everything in my tank eats it and even my goby will come out and hunt for it so i would recommend that to u in a second but u don't want to dump in ALL live brine for the mandarin incase he doesn't get any. (I'm sorry if I'm confusing u)... Now, u want to add something for the mandarin to munch on with or without live rock. Personally, I only have a bacterium rock and my goby is fine. Now, i put it celary, romane lettuce or some other green vegetable and make it stay on the floor. This way, my fish, crabs, inverts, and goby has something to munch on in case one fish eats too much other food so the others don't get any or in case i forget to feed them cuz i'm human, i wake up late and have to go. Also, i drop in shrimp pellets for the inverts and goby. Most of the time my arrow crab will grab two pellets and hold onto them like a little child with food she doesnt' want to give up. But what's funny is that he brakes it up, let's it float into the air and the mandarin sometimes eats that. So no, i do not think u need lots of live rock, but u r going to need alot, alot, alot, alot and finally alot of patience and a very good feeding schedule to make it work.
So I do not recommend getting a goby, they also hide alot in their tanks...
 
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