Tiny white specks

cornetet · 01-20-2006, 10:28 PM

Tank is about 4-5 months old.

Currrently doing:
> 20% water change every Sat
> add an HBH balance block every Sat (buffers 8.3ph, adds calcium and 71 trace elements)
> 96w light "on" 10 hrs a day

I'm seeing little white specks all over the back of my tank's glass. Some the specks also covers many of my live rocks.

Each speck looks like a speck of sand.

WHAT IS THIS STUFF? good to have? bad? indifferent?

gwen_o_lyn · 01-20-2006, 10:29 PM

are they moving? got any pics?

cornetet · 01-20-2006, 10:35 PM

hi gwen...

no not moving..... the specks seem to be attached to the glass.... it would take a knife to scrap it off.... but I have just all the specks be and not scrap them off.

...just wanting to know what I'm dealing with

gwen_o_lyn · 01-20-2006, 10:38 PM

I have no idea.. makes me wanna say coralline is starting to form since you say you would have to scrape it off.... but coralline isn't white *that I know of*

Not sure...

cornetet · 01-20-2006, 10:47 PM

Hogan · 01-20-2006, 11:34 PM

no but calcium is!

smeese · 01-21-2006, 12:56 AM

Got candy snails?

wharyat · 01-21-2006, 01:02 AM

They are little baby tube worms.

A great inhab.

Tim224DT · 01-21-2006, 06:38 AM

I have them on the back of my tank as well. If i dont scrap the front of my tank with the mag float every day at the end of the week i get tons of these specs on the front of my tank. Here is a pic of my oveflow is this what they look like?

Tim

whatevva · 01-21-2006, 07:37 AM

Whatevver they are...there is SOMETHING that will eat them!!

FishDaddy · 01-21-2006, 07:50 AM

Those are most probably Spirorbids, a type of tiny tube worm. Look very closely and see if they're coil shaped.

They are filter feeders and quite common in healthy tanks. The only downside is scraping the glass and sometimes they can clog pumps.

Dick