what are these now?????

Executivelevel · 02-26-2008, 05:42 PM

i just added a dose of copper to my 120 and now all i can see is little white specks swimming around. they look like tiny tiny (a millimeter in size) snails like, with out shells. a few of them have what look like tiny shells and they are slithering all over the glass and multiplying it looks like. what are these, they are to small to take a pic of, and are coming out of the coral!!!

Executivelevel · 02-26-2008, 05:43 PM

i forgot, i had a babylonian snail in there for a few days, and got eaten today, but will they reproduce on their own??

missionsix66 · 02-26-2008, 06:07 PM

Could be the copper killing inverts. (copepods)

Executivelevel · 02-26-2008, 06:10 PM

they dont look like pods at all, they look like snails, they move like them too

missionsix66 · 02-26-2008, 06:18 PM

Is it the shape of a bullet with a V looking tail? Shell or, no shell?

Executivelevel · 02-26-2008, 06:21 PM

yeah exactly, no shell , but atleast three have a shell

missionsix66 · 02-26-2008, 06:24 PM

I've got those in both my tanks and fuge also. I don't know what they are. I'm getting all of my reading material out right now. I've always wondered about them anyways just too lazy to look.

cuttingras · 02-26-2008, 06:25 PM

why did you copper your tank? do you have inverts? you do know they will all die right?

Executivelevel · 02-26-2008, 06:31 PM

We had some fish who have a very mild Ick so we are trying to take care of it before it gets out of control (it seems to be clearing up some already. We took out all of our inverts there were some small hermits that we couldnt catch, but Im not too worried about lossing them.

cuttingras · 02-26-2008, 06:34 PM

After you have treated the fish for ick, how do you plan to get out all the copper out of your tank? You'll eventually need inverts back in your tank, won't you? I've always been told Copper NEVER goes in a salt water tank....a hospital tank but never your show tank