What’s on my glass?

[Sherrie]

My salt water tank is new, about 4 months old now. It contains only live sand, live rock, green mac. 1 month ago, I introduced 2 Mexican Turbo Snails. Today, I noticed dots on the glass walls and rocks. The dots are about the size of a grain of sand. Do I have a problem and what shall I do?

 

[Zach B]

Any chance of a photo?

 

[Zach B]

Welcome btw

 

[vetteguy53081]

My salt water tank is new, about 4 months old now. It contains only live sand, live rock, green mac. 1 month ago, I introduced 2 Mexican Turbo Snails. Today, I noticed dots on the glass walls and rocks. The dots are about the size of a grain of sand. Do I have a problem and what shall I do?

Pictures under white lighting will be very helpful but suspicion is Spirobid worms which filter feed off algaes.
Does it look like these?

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Peace River]

Welcome to Reef2Reef!!!

 

[bnord]

Welcome and thanks for joining...

Picture tells a thousand words!!

 

[tbrown]

My salt water tank is new, about 4 months old now. It contains only live sand, live rock, green mac. 1 month ago, I introduced 2 Mexican Turbo Snails. Today, I noticed dots on the glass walls and rocks. The dots are about the size of a grain of sand. Do I have a problem and what shall I do?

Welcome! Like mentioned above, pictures help. There is also a thread somewhere that lists the most common "critters" we find in our tanks. @Erin1971Texas probably has it on speed dial? Also, more information can be helpful. Do the dots move or are they stationary?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Welcome! Like mentioned above, pictures help. There is also a thread somewhere that lists the most common "critters" we find in our tanks. @Erin1971Texas probably has it on speed dial? Also, more information can be helpful. Do the dots move or are they stationary?

Here is the aforementioned thread... https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/what-is-that-a-r2r-guide-to-common-new-tank-hitchhikers.443382/

@Sherrie , welcome!
As for what the "dots" are, without a photo it's impossible to guess, but I suspect they'll turn out to be a normal "bloom" of critters that occur in most new tanks.

 

[jsker]

 

[JZ199]

Welcome!! As others have said please post a picture when you can.

 

[SPR1968]

Hi and welcome to Reef2Reef!

 

[Nano_Man]

Have had the same on glass of my nano tank as far as I understand a lot of new tanks can get this scraped it of no problems now

 

[shakacuz]

welcome aboard the r2r board!

 

[AydenLincoln]

 

[Jimbhoy13]

Welcome to R2R

 

[kevgib67]

Welcome, glad you are here!

 

[csturgis1989]

spirorbid worms probably, they are harmless and can be scraped off. Excess nutrients cause them to multiply faster.

 

[tharbin]

Welcome to R2R! As others have said a photo (white light) is really needed but the first question baring the photos is 'do the dots move around or are they stationary?'

 

[CoralB]

Welcome !!!