What is this growing? Good or Bad

[Stingrayguy]

Just needing help to identify.

 

[JAC-]

From the picture they look like snail eggs.
Do you have snails?

 

[Stingrayguy]

No snails have ever been in the tank. This stuff has been growing all over the tank. Only thing in it is stingrays and isopods and algae and now this stuff.

 

[JAC-]

Do they move at all? The pattern makes me think they are fixed and why I thought snail eggs, but they could be copepods. They typically kind of hop around a bit every once and a while.

Other than that I'm out. But someone else will probably come in that knows more.

I have a picture of copepods eating on the algae I need to clean in my tank.

Apologies if that's grade school stuff to a collage student, I'm pretty new in the reef world.

 

[Stingrayguy]

No not moving at all just grow up the wall from the sand bed up. Kinda reminds me of a spiderweb growing. Copepods are all over need to put a goby in with them and get some of them cut back.

 

[JAC-]

No not moving at all just grow up the wall from the sand bed up. Kinda reminds me of a spiderweb growing. Copepods are all over need to put a goby in with them and get some of them cut back.

Yeah, the tank is only about a month old. Probably to soon for a mandarin, I have a yellow watchman that will hopefully get on it soon. Thanks, and hope someone can help you figure out what those are.

 

[Stingrayguy]

Yeah, the tank is only about a month old. Probably to soon for a mandarin, I have a yellow watchman that will hopefully get on it soon. Thanks, and hope someone can help you figure out what those are.

Hydroid jellyfish is what there called said they will disappear after about 2 months not sure where they come from.

 

[JAC-]

Interesting, thanks for the follow up stingrayguy. I'm going to look into those.