Tiny pine needles all over the sand :(

[linda lee]

I have little green things all over my sand that look like short, fat, dull green/gray pine needles... about 1/16" - 1/8" long. They weren't there last night. This is sprinkled everywhere, like someone lifted a tiny, shedding Christmas tree and shook it all over the sand.

Yesterday we added a CleanUpCrew to the tank; could it be they're doing more messing than cleaning?

If this is poop, what eats the garbage that's left by the things eating other garbage?

Help!



CUC:
6 Astrea Snails
4 Mexican Red Leg Hermits
1 Emerald Crab
6 Nassarius Snails
1 Serpent Star

Tank size = 33 gals

 

[ms_ k]

Sounds like snail feces to me. I see it in my tank from time to time.

 

[stroid]

yeah my turbo has large feces like that too that sounds right

 

[cameron]

Agreed. Could be a small form of algae, but unlikely.

 

[linda lee]

Doesn't look like algea... it's not attached to anything ... seems to be *floaters*

I suspected it was Critter-Crap ... so, to get rid of it, just vacuum?

 

[linda lee]

Good idea!!!

Would rather the filter did the work FOR me... that's what I'm paying it to do!

Thanks

 

[slayer]

did an urchin come in that clean up crew?...he could be shedding secondary to stress..

 

[olds350racer]

I was thinking the same thing, slayer77. An urchin wasn't mentioned, but that does sound just like a stressed urchin.

 

[linda lee]

olds350racer;53908 wrote: I was thinking the same thing, slayer77. An urchin wasn't mentioned, but that does sound just like a stressed urchin.

Nope... no urchin

Pretty sure what we're seeing is just poopies