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11-28-2004, 09:13 AM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Fairfield, CA,California
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 |  White crap on my astreas
Is this normal? I woke up this morning to find my astrea snails (all 3 of them) looking different. Their shells look like they're covered with a white chalky substance. I tried rubbing one of them with a wooden spoon and I couldn't seem to scrape any off.
There are also white circular specks of what appears to be the same gunk on the sides of the aquarium, just a few of them.
My hermit crab and clarkii clown seem unaffected. Everything else seems normal....
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running:&&5-g KMart special FW with undergravel filter, 1 dalmation molly, 4 gold barb, 1 chinese algae eater&&http://tinypic.com/bvntw&&10-g SW FO with a clarkii clown, some snails and some kind of hermit crab
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11-28-2004, 09:48 AM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Marina del Rey, California
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
Probably snail eggs. _________ Just tryin to recreate God's perfection in a glass bowl. 20 Gallon Reef W/Live Rock, mated pair of Maroon Clowns, Softies, 110 watts PC 10,000k lighting, and skimmer.  | |
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11-28-2004, 12:32 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Los Angeles, California Age: 21
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
hmmm i have some of that i think...they r like really little barnicles or somthing like that...they have a little crown than comes in and out...to my knowing they r ok _________ Tank Specs:
55 Gallon Mixed Reef
48" Tek Light: 4-54W T5 HO Fluorescents
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1 x 54w Super Actinic Blue T5 HO Flourescent
1 x 54w 14000K AquaBlue 75/25 T5 HO Fluorescent
1 x 54w 10000k AquaSun T5 HO Fluorescent
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100+ lb. Fiji Live Rock
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11-28-2004, 12:58 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
well, what you got are corals. They are all over my rock. real pretty actually 
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11-28-2004, 01:11 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Clinton Twp, Michigan Age: 27
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
Actually I believe the white cicular things on your glass are Tube Worms. They will cause no harm and are acctually a sign of a healthy reef system. As far as your snail I'm not sure. A pic goes a long ways
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11-28-2004, 01:49 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
I'm not sure if they are tube worms. Do they come out for a long time and disappear when something comes close? then they are ...
But I have those things, that stick out their "heads" hundrets of times a day, like pulsing. | |
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11-28-2004, 01:52 PM
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| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Fairfield, CA,California
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
Yeah I shoulda done pics the first time
These two shots show the snails covered in the white crap. Just yesterday they were totally that magenta color that you can still see on the one snail. Today--poof! White.  
Here's an attempted shot of some white spots on the back of the tank (and my fish incidentally in the shot)  | |
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11-28-2004, 02:22 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Tampa, FL,Florida
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
ok, then we had it all wrong...
I don't know, I would say that the coraline algea died off, but since you got white spots on the glass, that can't be it. Maybe calcium settling down? I don't know | |
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11-28-2004, 03:20 PM
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| | Purple Spiny Lobster
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Clinton Twp, Michigan Age: 27
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| Re: White crap on my astreas
I agree with hoodoo, this looks like coraline algae die off. Not a huge suprise if these were recent additions. As far as the spots on the glass they look like tube worms. no worries | |
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