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09/18/2008, 01:13 AM
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white little bugs
so i just seen some microscopic tiny white dots all over the acrylic, but it isnt on the fish. i thought it could be ich but with the amount i saw, its probably been there at least a week or two, and ich would have overtaken the fish.
any ideas it is small with a tail looks like a tadpole but white and smaller than a grain of sand. also looks smaller than copepods
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09/18/2008, 01:30 AM
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Moved to New to the Hobby as more on topic here.
If they move around, perhaps they're a type of copepod or isopod.
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09/18/2008, 01:33 AM
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well are there different kinds and sizes of pods? i hope you are right because i would be pretty mad if i acquired ich ...
like i said, copepods are about the size of a grain of sand while these little things are about 1/5 that...
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09/18/2008, 02:12 AM
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Marine ich won't show up as white spots on the glass. There are thousands of species of copepods. You might also be seeing mysid shrimp of some sort.
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09/18/2008, 04:47 AM
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09/18/2008, 05:27 AM
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If you have a tank and fish, ich is more than likely present already. It just isn't infecting the fish at this moment. Unless you dip all of your fish, you have it!
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09/18/2008, 06:51 AM
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60Cubed....
Are you saying all fish or tanks have ich?? |
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09/18/2008, 09:51 AM
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DarthSimon, I've heard that all tanks likely carry some dormant ich parasites, but I've never had a problem with it. In this case, it's much more likely to be copepods over anything else.
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09/18/2008, 11:08 PM
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I don't think anyone knows how many tanks contain marine ich.
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09/19/2008, 09:50 PM
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yeah... although I'm a newbie, that sounds very far-fetched!
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