one more... please identify...

[New Wave]

these guys...

these guys are VERY VERY small.. they are magnified 32x.. you cant see them with the naked eye or magnifying glass... the are omost perfectly round... moderate to slow about moving... tan in color.... i see them moving about in much the same fashion as bumper cars...

i think the brown background is some kind of "slime" for lack of better description, of which i think the hatch... by the thousands.... but i could be wrong... because i have no idea..

WHAT ARE THEY????

 

[skinz78]

Hmm never seen them before, hopefully someone who has will chime in.

 

[Monroereef]

Acro eating flatworms, a.k.a AEFW. You need to start dipping your corals. Look at the base of the corals, you might see eggs.

 

[New Wave]

yea.. i have that same thought too... however... i have dealt with AEFW before... never seen anything this small... no sign of egg clutches... in this photo... if there were a single AEFW egg it would take up more than half of the frame... these seem to be hatching from that brown (ooze) you can see here in the background... is this a different type of AEFW than the traditional AEFW?

to be clear on the photo.. there are 18 of these guys circled... not 3 different worms... they are round on shape... not oval... they are not transparent like AEFW... although... i have considered too that they are VERY juvenile AEFW... but i cant make the connection...

 

[Monroereef]

I have seen AEFW that are NOT transparent. They were same color. How about dipping the coral and see if they fall off? Then inspect the fallen buggers.
There are some pics in this link that look like yours :(

http://www.google.com/search?q=aefw...&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBQQ_AUoAQ&biw=1208&bih=1056

 

[New Wave]

let me give you an idea of scale... if you took a needle and set the very tip in the center of this photo... it would cover all three circled groups of bugs... they are TINY... the photos posted on the other forums... (look rev... this one was easy! :) ) are taken with a camera or possibly a microscope with maximim 4x-8X zoom.... these photos are 32X zoom.... anybody can verify from experience if these are or are not AEFW?

oh.. and REEF2REEF ROCKS!!!!

 

[JWorth]

very small. What made you think to magnify that in the first place?

 

[New Wave]

I'm trying to understand why my setup struggles... Levels are good... Lighting g is good... No visible reason I'm havin issues... So I bought a microscope