White spots on inside of glass

[lilrobb]

I know - quite a few IDs for me these days,
but that's because the tank is starting to LIVE.

I find these about 1/16" white blotches (non symmetrical shaped) looking like actual wall color drips on the inside of my tank.

I can scratch them off the glass with little pressure - under a magnifying glass they appear to have a yellow center (reminding me of over-easy eggs)...

And they become more and more.

What is it?

Robb

 

[reefhawke]

Limpets come to my mind maybe. I think limpet snails are not as small as u describe though it might be babies. There are many types of copepods, but on this thread

http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15479">http://www.atlantareefclub.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15479</a>

<u>Spirorbis</u> looks like ur description a little.

 

[lilrobb]

Spirorbis is there too,
but the blotches are more of a white paint drip - if they weren't that tiny I'd take a pic, but my digicam doesn't focus on them.

Robb

 

[jesspete]

Amphipods are always the first "white spots" I see on my new tanks.

 

[jesspete]

 

[lilrobb]

Do pods look like paint drips to anyone?
I see my pods and the spirorbis - but the paint drips are totally different.

Looks like a fried egg easy-over style

 

[jesspete]

ohhh... hold on

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/flatworms.htm">http://www.wetwebmedia.com/flatworms.htm</a>

second pic on page

 

[jesspete]

http://www.wetwebmedia.com/fltwmid.htm">http://www.wetwebmedia.com/fltwmid.htm</a>

see here too

 

[lilrobb]

Close,

but much whiter and coraline.

(I'm about to throw my camera out of the window - can't take a pic)

 

[jesspete]

hmmm.... do they move?

 

[lilrobb]

First pic are the spots on my overflow.

Second are some Astrea, pods and the mysterious spots

Robb

PS: and no - they don't move or so super slow that I don't notice

 

[whitmanb]

They are probably those tube worms that begin as a white spot and then produce a white tube. I dont know the names of them, but I have them in my tank as well. They do look like drops of paint at first.

 

[smoothie]

Not vermatid snails? May just be regular snail eggs about to hatch

 

[lilrobb]

ANother attempt for pics,

this time on the live rock - those are not worms of any kind, but something with a coraline shell.

Any thoughts?

Robb

 

[lilrobb]

Still drivin me nuts,

it seems when they 'disappear' they live a coraline circle remain on the glass - but i still have no idea where they go or what they are or what they come from.

New pic attached

 

[kirru]

have you tried collecting some and housing it in the sump or something and see if it hatches? I can only think of it being some type of snail eggs. the only snails that lay eggs in my tank are the n.vibex snails. though I wish my other would start laying eggs too, save me money in a snail CUC.

 

[thewarbrd]

They look like nerite snail eggs to me. I actually acclimated a few to freshwater for my planted tank a year or so ago because the eggs need salt water to hatch so they're the one FW 'safe' snail that wont take over a tank... but holy crap that tank looked like a sesame seed bun exploded.

 

[lilrobb]

SESAME SEEDS!
That is the very best description I have heard about my spots.

But what's strange is - I only have like 4 Nerites in my tank - they must be continuously laying eggs...
The white spots basically multiply over night

THANKS RUSSELL,

Robb

PS: BUMMER - they won't hatch though

 

[thewarbrd]

Yes, I only had 5-6 in my FW and they coated everything... glass, rocks, plant leafs, and for that reason I refuse to have any in my reef tank! The little white patches from my ceriths are annoying enough but a quick swipe of the magfloat cures that. Wasnt that easy in the FW, the seeds from hell still left a ring behind.

 

[lilrobb]

Welcome to my world,

4 Nerites anyone?

Robb