little white specs & worms

bandrews · 09/02/2007, 10:19 AM

30g reef is about 2-3 months old now.

the last couple of days we noticed little white specs forming all over the tank, on the Live Rock, on the glass, on shells etc. not on the fish. Is this a problem?

Also we are getting a lot of worms coming out ofthe live rock. we knew there were a few and were not cocerned. THey are fleshy colored and come out both night andday. Wel now they are quite large and I counted 8 out just now (9:00 AM). SHould I start plucking them out ?

We had a turbo snail knock a frag with polyps onto the BTA, the BTA looked like it was better, but is now looking almost dead. I am wonding if this is related to either the white spots or the worms

75Gallons · 09/02/2007, 10:41 AM

From what your describing the white specs are the shells of sedentary filter feeders. They dont have any actual negative effects on the overall health of the tank that I know of. Every few days someone posts pics of them growing on their glass but I've never seen someone say they can affect a BTA.

bandrews · 09/02/2007, 10:57 AM

ok that make sense - we have been feeding phyto plankton for the feather dusters, bubble coral etc. should we cut back?? Currently are feeding once at night 1/8 tsp of the encapsulated for a 30 gals.

In addition to the specks there are some blotches of white - it appears to be on top of the or replacing the purple alge would a picture help?

Thanks

09/02/2007, 10:19 AM	#1
bandrews Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Washington State Posts: 26	little white specs & worms 30g reef is about 2-3 months old now. the last couple of days we noticed little white specs forming all over the tank, on the Live Rock, on the glass, on shells etc. not on the fish. Is this a problem? Also we are getting a lot of worms coming out ofthe live rock. we knew there were a few and were not cocerned. THey are fleshy colored and come out both night andday. Wel now they are quite large and I counted 8 out just now (9:00 AM). SHould I start plucking them out ? We had a turbo snail knock a frag with polyps onto the BTA, the BTA looked like it was better, but is now looking almost dead. I am wonding if this is related to either the white spots or the worms __________________ 9/11 all gave some, some gave all....343 Current Tank Info: 55g Reef (BTA/Button Plyp/Yellow poly/wavy coral/mushroom/bubble coral) Critters(2camel shrimp/cleaner shrimp/emeraldcrab/snails) with a couple fish (2clowns/fire hawkfish/6line wrasse/firefishgoby/lyrtail anthias) 20L refugium with mangroves/macro a

09/02/2007, 10:57 AM	#3
bandrews Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Washington State Posts: 26	ok that make sense - we have been feeding phyto plankton for the feather dusters, bubble coral etc. should we cut back?? Currently are feeding once at night 1/8 tsp of the encapsulated for a 30 gals. In addition to the specks there are some blotches of white - it appears to be on top of the or replacing the purple alge would a picture help? Thanks __________________ 9/11 all gave some, some gave all....343 Current Tank Info: 55g Reef (BTA/Button Plyp/Yellow poly/wavy coral/mushroom/bubble coral) Critters(2camel shrimp/cleaner shrimp/emeraldcrab/snails) with a couple fish (2clowns/fire hawkfish/6line wrasse/firefishgoby/lyrtail anthias) 20L refugium with mangroves/macro a

09/02/2007, 10:41 AM	#2
75Gallons Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Georgia Posts: 239	From what your describing the white specs are the shells of sedentary filter feeders. They dont have any actual negative effects on the overall health of the tank that I know of. Every few days someone posts pics of them growing on their glass but I've never seen someone say they can affect a BTA.