small creature infestation growing geometrically

woodstock '69 · 09/14/2008, 07:44 PM

I have some kind of small white spec kind of worm? (lfs (top notch lfs ..really...as good as I have seen) said might be calcium worm). I can't get a pic. They do not look like the hydroid's that people have posted pics of. About size of the head of a pin. Look like a grain of kosher salt. I thought untill a day ago that they were inert and not creatures at all. Just some kind of calcium by product or something like that. But now I do see them moving slowly on the glass and all over my completely covered with coraline lr.

There are thousands I suppose tonite. Lots more each day. Mostly staying off the corals, but all over the glass and rock. They tend to move up the glass and a lot of them appear to hang around above the water line near the top of the glass.

Can these keep multiplying and take over tank and eventually kill everyting?

Is there something I can do?

Will they eventually crowd themselves out and die off?

Should I start saying goodbye to all my corals, my baby purple tang, my african flameback angel, and my swiss guard basslet?

Tank is about 15 months old 60g oceanic. I am anal about water parameters

alk 8
calc 450
sg 1.026
mg 1350
ph 8.3
temp 80
sunlight supply 250 hqi 15K
deltec hob mc600
no sump or fuge
10% rodi wc every 2 weeks - never miss one
have only used rodi since start

water barely varies off these month in and month out.

HELP!!!!

flyyyguy · 09/14/2008, 07:56 PM

from your description I cant even hardly make a guess. but I will guess you have a tiny pod of some kind and it is nothing to be worried about. Little isopods would be my frist guess, but you seem to think they are harder than that so maybe even a tiny snail of sorts

in either case, im sure it is nothing to be alarmed about. If it is by chance anything harmful, you would hav something very uncommon as none of the usual suspects as far as pests go fit your description

woodstock '69 · 09/14/2008, 08:00 PM

yea, they are hard as rocks. I try to crush them between my fingers and I can't. feels like small grit or tiny tiny rocks. You know, like a large grain of salt.

09/14/2008, 07:44 PM	#1
woodstock '69 Premium Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: central virginia Posts: 368	small creature infestation growing geometrically I have some kind of small white spec kind of worm? (lfs (top notch lfs ..really...as good as I have seen) said might be calcium worm). I can't get a pic. They do not look like the hydroid's that people have posted pics of. About size of the head of a pin. Look like a grain of kosher salt. I thought untill a day ago that they were inert and not creatures at all. Just some kind of calcium by product or something like that. But now I do see them moving slowly on the glass and all over my completely covered with coraline lr. There are thousands I suppose tonite. Lots more each day. Mostly staying off the corals, but all over the glass and rock. They tend to move up the glass and a lot of them appear to hang around above the water line near the top of the glass. Can these keep multiplying and take over tank and eventually kill everyting? Is there something I can do? Will they eventually crowd themselves out and die off? Should I start saying goodbye to all my corals, my baby purple tang, my african flameback angel, and my swiss guard basslet? Tank is about 15 months old 60g oceanic. I am anal about water parameters alk 8 calc 450 sg 1.026 mg 1350 ph 8.3 temp 80 sunlight supply 250 hqi 15K deltec hob mc600 no sump or fuge 10% rodi wc every 2 weeks - never miss one have only used rodi since start water barely varies off these month in and month out. HELP!!!!

09/14/2008, 07:56 PM	#2
flyyyguy King of the white corals Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,239	from your description I cant even hardly make a guess. but I will guess you have a tiny pod of some kind and it is nothing to be worried about. Little isopods would be my frist guess, but you seem to think they are harder than that so maybe even a tiny snail of sorts in either case, im sure it is nothing to be alarmed about. If it is by chance anything harmful, you would hav something very uncommon as none of the usual suspects as far as pests go fit your description __________________ I like holding hands, snuggling, and long walks on the beach

09/14/2008, 08:00 PM	#3
woodstock '69 Premium Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: central virginia Posts: 368	yea, they are hard as rocks. I try to crush them between my fingers and I can't. feels like small grit or tiny tiny rocks. You know, like a large grain of salt.