Tiny White Organism

[DraggingTail]

I have been have a problem with algae on my glass.

Today I come home and the algae is a little better.

But, I notice tons of little white specks on the glass with the algae. And, they move!!! The are very small with a little tail and they have jerky straight line movement.

You can kinda see them below. Please advise....

 

[Pbh-reef]

Those look like copepods to me - good guys who eat algae

 

[hotashes]

Yes pods, good to have. Free fish food :)

A.

 

[rkpetersen]

Yup, copepods on the glass. An absolutely fantastic sight in a reef tank! :)

 

[DraggingTail]

 

[DraggingTail]

Does this mean I can get a Mandarin?

 

[Gareth elliott]

The rocks look a little to clean imo. They need food to feed on to maintain a steady population. Micro algae, bacteria film, etc.

 

[DraggingTail]

The rocks look a little to clean imo. They need food to feed on to maintain a steady population. Micro algae, bacteria film, etc.

So, they will die off? I have some green where the MH hits but my hermits, emerald and trochus keep them fairly clean.

Are you saying a Mandarin will be jumping the gun?

 

[DraggingTail]

Any input on why it's so cloudy?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Bacterial bloom.
Something rotting and feeding the bacteria.

Are those snails dead?
You should take em out when they die.

 

[DraggingTail]

Bacterial bloom.
Something rotting and feeding the bacteria.

Are those snails dead?
You should take em out when they die.

No. I got empty shells so my hermits have variety. Nothing dead

 

[DraggingTail]

Bacterial bloom.
Something rotting and feeding the bacteria.

Are those snails dead?
You should take em out when they die.

I had 6 Chromis. Big one bullied and killed 5. Then clowns killed him. Those are only dead stuff and I took them all out

 

[DraggingTail]

Bacterial bloom.
Something rotting and feeding the bacteria.

Are those snails dead?
You should take em out when they die.

Bunch of hermits, red legs, 1 conch, bunch of trochus and whatever this huge snail is in there. Tank is 2 months old. And some zebra snails.

Ammonia 0
Nitrites 0
Nitrates 20
Phosphate 0
PH 8.4
Temp 77.6
Salinity 1.026

Been cloudy for about a week. I been changing filter floss every 3 days. Have ceramic and matrix and purigen in filter

 

[DraggingTail]

Bacterial bloom.
Something rotting and feeding the bacteria.

Are those snails dead?
You should take em out when they die.

Seems like cloudy started when I switch to Radium 400 W 20000 K

 

[DraggingTail]

These things really clean your glass!