lotta bugs

[langcjl]

My tank is about six months old. When I shine a light in there at night I see lots of bugs all over the live rock. I guess these are pods. I also have hundreds of tiny bugs that swim through the water. Are these pods also or what? They are only there at night and there are a LOT of them.

 

[a&m aggie 04']

yep they are pods

 

[texag04]

I dont get it, everyone says they always see them more at night, and there tanks are already well established before they see any. I have had my tank cycling for only two weeks now, and I see those little boogers (literally thousands) everywhere all day. I mean everywhere you look they are crawling and hopping about. On the LR, the SB, even all over the glass. What is with my tank because this is beginning to sound not normal? Am I just a lucky sap with pods.
PS. I have no clue about those swimming bugs.
What do they look like? And how do they swim?

 

[texag04]

Wait a minute, I just took a break from studying and turned my tank light back on to look for swimming bugs and I see them. Yep they are pods alright, but I dont know if they are actually swimming or the current picked up some dead bodies.
They look like air bubbles but if I look real hard they got tails.

 

[doodle1800]

Good opportunity to buy a Mandarin Goby - they thrive on pods.

 

[conrad]

I have had my tank up and running since early March & I dont know if I have seen a pod yet. Is that typical? Does it take time for them show up? Or is it that they only show up at night? I am a beginner as well. Any help would be appreciated.
Conrad

 

[scottnj]

Dang Tex, want to send me a handful of that live sand? Sounds like you got a pretty healthy mix going.

 

[aarone]

the mandarin wont eat the pods that "swim around" and the ones on the glass. I have a ton on my glass. I wiped off every day with my magfloat, but the next day they are right back on it again.
aaron

 

[birdy]

When a tank first starts out it is very nutrient rich due to the cycle and the pods thrive off of it and reproduce like mad, when thier food supply diminishes so will the pods and it will all balance out eventually. So it is not unusually for a newly cycled tank to have a large number of pods.

 

[texag04]

Originally posted by ScottNJ
Dang Tex, want to send me a handful of that live sand? Sounds like you got a pretty healthy mix going.

Funny thing is I dont have live sand but I used a mix of two different substrates, marine sand and fine crushed aragonite (more finer than the sand). They are two different colors and I m beginning to see black patches forming in the middle of the substrate layers. What is it?

 

[aarone]

just fish waste and junk accumulating. Get a sand shifting crew and they will clean this up.
aaron