Need Some Help Identifying Something In My Tank...

[LineDropper]

This morning - I woke up to find a bunch of very small white specs on the back glass of my tank. I didn't think much of it this morning. When I got home tonight - I checked it again and it actually looks like very very small worms or like baby snails.

I could take a picture, but you wouldn't see much.

Do saltwater snails reproduce regularly? Any advice?

 

[SkiFletch]

Tiny tubeworms. They're filter feeders and will "bloom" like algae when whatever it is that they eat is present in the aquarium. Eventually they'll eat up all the food and slowly die away.

 

[dilbert]

Sorry to jump in.

But just yesterday I saw some white spots on the glass and with a magnifier I could recognise some white worm-like creatures that are rolled around in a spiral looking like a number 6 or 9. Then I became aware that the white spots on the live rock seem to be the same creatures. Only on the live rock the seem to be upright and could be tubeworms and on the glass they form a spiral.

Are both appearances the same animal?

PS:
Unfortunately I couldn't make a photo as they are so tiny, about 1 mm maximal, and I'm too stupid to get my old Minolta Vectis on them. Do you have a Web link of them?

 

[SkiFletch]

Sound like the same or very similar.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

I have these on the back of my tank as well (and have seen them on the backs of a lot of other peoples tanks too). The thing I'm curious about is why they never appear on the sides of my tank (which dont get wiped down). I had assumed it was because the back of my tank is plastic so had a rough surface but then I have seen other people with them attached to glass.

Not a life or death need to know piece of information but just curious

 

[eschaton]

Since you asked about saltwater snails...

Nerites will lay eggs in water which look like little white specks (though they just look like sesame seeds stuck to the rocks). These don't seem to hatch however.

The only snails I know for sure which reproduce in a saltwater tank are stomatela. Aquacultured trochus pop up now and again, so that also must be possible, though I haven't read about it happening in anyone's tanks. To my knowledge, these are the only ones, except for those very tiny white snails with the cone shells.

 

[showjyr]

I can count about a dozen of them on the back of my tank right now. A shroom rock I got from Ski easily had 40 or 50 on it. With a magnifying lens the actual worm is pretty easy to see.

 

[Adrinal]

I saw some white spots on the glass and with a magnifier I could recognise some white worm-like creatures that are rolled around in a spiral looking like a number 6 or 9.

6s are ok
9's are bad news.











;p

 

[drag]

agree with ski ....
sound like SPIRORBID WORMS heres a hitchhicker link [URL="http/www.xtalworld.com/Aquarium/hitchfaq.htm"]http/www.xtalworld.com/Aquarium/hitchfaq.htm[/URL]