What is on my glass?

[hollywooddiver]

Ok so i have these organisms growing all over my tank sides. The also look like little tiny white brittle stars or like little baby curly cue anemone. ( i know weird descriptions). Any idea what they could be?

 

[alix2.0]

uhm well from your description they could be spirobid worms, aiptasia, hydroids, micro brittles, or asterina stars. or something else. can you get a pic? or are they too small?

 

[hollywooddiver]

yeah let me try and get a pic. try being the key word here. lol. they usually come out as specks on the glass.

 

[alix2.0]

a pic would be good.
are they hard and calcerous? or soft like jelly? do they move on the glass, or do they stay in one place? are they spirals? does anything come out of / retract into them? or are they all one piece?

 

[spanko]

Like this?

 

[aquaknight]

Waiting for pic, but betting on hydroid jellyfish....

 

[alix2.0]

could also be pods of some kind.

 

[hollywooddiver]

Spanko. Your picture is exactly what is on my glass.

 

[spanko]

Hydroid medusa. Not to worry they will disappear in time. Most people see them in newer setups.

 

[florida joe]

Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/2877220
Hydroid medusa. Not to worry they will disappear in time. Most people see them in newer setups.
Henry unless you are talking to your fish with your mouth full again

 

[hollywooddiver]

hmm. cool. i have no idea what florida joe just said but ok. it was weird one day copepods covering the glas them no more copepods and seems like the next day hydroid colony.

 

[spanko]

Originally Posted by florida joe
http:///forum/post/2877230
Henry unless you are talking to your fish with your mouth full again

 

[florida joe]

Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/2877238

there you did it again now wipe your glass

 

[hollywooddiver]

ok new thing i just noticed. i wanna say baby snails but i dunno. (the big snail isnt in my tank. just a picture i found with the little thing i'm talking about)

 

[socal57che]

Originally Posted by HollywoodDiver
http:///forum/post/2877897
ok new thing i just noticed. i wanna say baby snails but i dunno. (the big snail isnt in my tank. just a picture i found with the little thing i'm talking about)
So you are not talking about the sundial snail in this pic, right?

 

[hollywooddiver]

not the snail in the middle. to the left of the snail in the middle

 

[alix2.0]

google limpet. i would but im late for school.

 

[spanko]

The large one in the middle looks like Colonista hitch hiker to me.
Can't see the one to the left well enough to identify.

 

[hollywooddiver]

i did some reading after i posted the snail bit. pretty sure they are baby nerite snails. they look like sesame seeds in the planktonic larval stage.