Treefer32
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About a week ago I had my yellow coris wrasse jump out and die about a week ago. I have algae on the glass and some hair algae I'm watching slowly dissolve. (related to a different problem.)
I have 3 fish in a 350 gallon system. A dragon Wrasse, a black tang and a foxface rabbitfish. Both are adults.
I'm letting things stabilize and just adding corals. I cleaned the front glass last night and all parameters are in check and where I want them after rigorous testing. This morning I didn't see anything on the front glass, but, now I just saw as the lights are dimming to shut down for the day, I saw hundreds (maybe in the thousands) of white dots covering the glass. If they were slightly red I"d say planaria or flat worms. but, these are solid white and much smaller than flat worms. So small they wont' show up on my phone's camera. (I tried.. The dost appear almost opaque when I try to take pictures of them.) Then I noticed the white dots were moving! and Moving fast!
Several moved an inch across the glass in 3 seconds. I know what snail eggs look like, usually straight or squiggly lines. These are individual dots and all of them move... 6 foot long and 31" tall of glass covered in semi translucent white dots....
My thought is pods... Which if true, that's a lot of pods! How do I keep them from crashing and dieing off? I love it if it is! :) Just hope it's nothing bad...
My assumption is that my yellow corris wrasse was keeping their popualtions in check. He was constantly eating off the rocks.
My dragon wrasse is lazy, he sits on my return line and watches the bubbles and eats food that comes to him... Dumb smart fish. :)
I'll need a powerful magnifying glass and steady hand to get pictures of these guys. . . Based on the description copepod? Amphipods are usually larger, I've seen them before and these don't look like that unless they're baby amphipods?
I guess the thought that terrified me, is if they're Ich parasites on the glass??? But aren't they free swimming parasites not crawling around on the glass?
I have 3 fish in a 350 gallon system. A dragon Wrasse, a black tang and a foxface rabbitfish. Both are adults.
I'm letting things stabilize and just adding corals. I cleaned the front glass last night and all parameters are in check and where I want them after rigorous testing. This morning I didn't see anything on the front glass, but, now I just saw as the lights are dimming to shut down for the day, I saw hundreds (maybe in the thousands) of white dots covering the glass. If they were slightly red I"d say planaria or flat worms. but, these are solid white and much smaller than flat worms. So small they wont' show up on my phone's camera. (I tried.. The dost appear almost opaque when I try to take pictures of them.) Then I noticed the white dots were moving! and Moving fast!
Several moved an inch across the glass in 3 seconds. I know what snail eggs look like, usually straight or squiggly lines. These are individual dots and all of them move... 6 foot long and 31" tall of glass covered in semi translucent white dots....
My thought is pods... Which if true, that's a lot of pods! How do I keep them from crashing and dieing off? I love it if it is! :) Just hope it's nothing bad...
My assumption is that my yellow corris wrasse was keeping their popualtions in check. He was constantly eating off the rocks.
My dragon wrasse is lazy, he sits on my return line and watches the bubbles and eats food that comes to him... Dumb smart fish. :)
I'll need a powerful magnifying glass and steady hand to get pictures of these guys. . . Based on the description copepod? Amphipods are usually larger, I've seen them before and these don't look like that unless they're baby amphipods?
I guess the thought that terrified me, is if they're Ich parasites on the glass??? But aren't they free swimming parasites not crawling around on the glass?
