Hydroids?

[kanders87]

In the past month, I’ve been noticing more (what I think is hydroids) cropping up on my rock. Can anyone confirm?

Also, noticed some tiny white specks on my glass, but it was hard to get a good picture. Literally look like tiny grains of sand on the glass. No distinguishing features that I could see. Any ideas on what these are?? I clean them away with a glass scraper, but they come back within a few hours.

Please and thank you for any help or advice!

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

First picture looks like Digitate Hydroids

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Can you try to get a better picture with more white for the second one?

 

[kanders87]

I can’t get my iphone cameron to focus on them, but here’s some more pics in all white.

 

[Phantom6966]

They look like hydroids but hard to tell without focus. Here's a shot of what I'm pretty certain is hydroids in my tank.

 

[kanders87]

They don’t appear to have any “legs” coming off of them like yours do Phantom. They are just specks of white.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Do you see them moving around at all? They could be baby collonista snails.

 

[kanders87]

I don’t notice them moving on the glass. They just seem to stay there until I brush them away. Once they’re in the water column, I can’t tell because of the flow.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

Hmm, thats got me stumped. Maybe @KJ can chime in.

 

[cmcoker]

White dots could be spirorbid worms, hard to tell from pic
http://www.melevsreef.com/critter/spirorbid-worms

 

[Somuchflo99]

I had the same thing got two peppermint shrimp and they are all gone or at least outta sight

 

[KJ]

Nerite eggs?

 

[kanders87]

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any nerites in this tank. It’s my 6.6 gallon so my cuc is small ceriths, and a few Nassarius. I also have 4 sexy shrimp, and a yellow clown goby. Started with dry rock, live sand.

 

[kanders87]

Seems like we’re all stumped by this one! Maybe I can try and catch one and look at it under a microscope at work...

 

[samnaz]

Seems like we’re all stumped by this one! Maybe I can try and catch one and look at it under a microscope at work...

You have microscopes at work.... *jealous*

Any luck identifying the creature?

 

[kanders87]

This is at 100x


When I smashed them, there were little babies running around on the slide. I’ll upload a video when I get home. They look mite-ish?

 

[kanders87]

Well, I can’t get the video to upload. But, after doing some comparison online, I think they are just some type of pod.