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06-02-2006, 12:21 PM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA
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 |  White, Fast Moving Bugs on top of Water
Hi everyone, the other day I noticed a BUNCH of little white FAST moving insects moving across the top of the water. They seem to be only visible if you look down onto your water. I tried looking from the bottom up but I didn't see anything. At first, I thought they were little air/microbubbles floating around. However, at a closer glance, I noticed there were in fact insects. If you have a moonlight, they swarm around the light at night. That's how I came to notice them. I tried SCOOPING them out with a net, but it seems as though they just keep reproducing. Does anyone know what these little guys are? Are they good/bad for the tank? 
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Started 03/2006
46 Gallon, Aqua C Remora w/ Maxi-Jet 1200, 2 Hydor Koralia #1, Penguin Bio-Wheel 200 Filter (w/ no Bio-Wheel), 65 lbs live rock, 60 lbs live sand, Coralife 36" Lunar Aqualight 2x96w with LEDs.
LIVESTOCK
Fish: 2 false perculas, 1 Coral Beauty, 1 diamond goby
Inverts: 10 hermit crabs, 2 nassarius snails, 7 turbo snails, 1 electric blue crab, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp.
Corals: Colt Coral
Last edited by imagine7070; 06-02-2006 at 01:37 PM.
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06-02-2006, 06:59 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: OREGON
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could be copepods _________  dang lazy cleaner shrimp! | |
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06-02-2006, 07:00 PM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Denver, Colorado Age: 24
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I have these too! I can't offer any advise as to what they are, and I only recently noticed them. In the 4 years I have had this tank, this is the first time they seem to have shown up. So far I don't think they have done any harm. I tried to catch some too, but when I netted one, it was just as fast on the net as on the water. And its the same with me, that I can only see them when looking down into the water, and only at night when one of the lights has gone off. I'm hoping for an explanation here as well......they are definitely not copepods! They look like white spiders that move FAST! Lightning quick! _________ 125 Gal Reef. Born March 2002 FISH: Ocellaris Clown, Yellow Tang, Fairy Wrasse, Sand Star, Fuzzy Dwarf Lion, Mandarin Dragonette, Hippo Tang CORALS: Green Striped/Red/Purple Mushrooms, Green Star Polyps, Yellow Toadstool Leather, Bubble, Frogspawn, 2 Hammers, Yellow Polyps, Open Brain, Ridge Leather, Various Zoas, Button Polyps, Kenya Tree, Colt, Elephant Ear Mushroom, Clove Polyps, Torch, Purple Clam, Rose BTA  | 
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06-03-2006, 11:48 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA
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Hey Brandon, I noticed this morning that a lot of the "spiders" were dead and floating on top of the water!!! but I'm sure they will just reproduce and start up again! What ARE THESE THINGS!!  | |
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06-03-2006, 11:59 AM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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06-04-2006, 12:19 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
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No, it's definitely not those pods. Those are IN the water, but these "spiders" I am talking about are ON TOP of the water and don't look like pods, but rather spiders. | |
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might be these little guys!
