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09/12/2014, 10:28 AM | #1 |
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Help! I had hitchhiker Fry/eggs? Possible?
If you would like to skip the information, I placed the more "to the point" info in bold.
I noticed last night that I had a lot of larger white specs floating in my tank. So I spend some time to investigate, and noticed that they were larger than a copepod, and were definitely swimming, so it was not some sort of contaminant, and I presumed at first that they were a jelly fish because I had finally identified Hydroid Jellies on the glass of my tank. And I figured that maybe they had left the glass, and were now swimming, because I had not seen hardly any on the glass anymore. But then I turned my lights back on, and noticed that the little specs had eyes, and what appeared to be a body, and a large fin that went from behind the eyes, to the underneath. They are clear/white like a copepod, and seem only active at night. I caught 2 and placed them into a container so that I can monitor them, and placed the container into the back chamber next to the pump and heater, so as to keep a consistent temperature as the tank. I added a large range of rotifers and plankton to my tank and a small amount to the container this morning. I also placed decapped brine eggs into the tank, and a drop into the container, was that okay? I know the decapped eggs won't harm my corals nor my other tank mates, so I was not too worried. I also would like to add that I noticed them after I received my order from BlueZoo Aquatics, which consisted of 1 Pistol shrimp, 3 Pom Pom Crabs, 1 Emerald crab, a six line Wrasse, and Yellow Rose Goby(both fish are in a 10g quarantine tank) and a "Mushroom Grab bag" I received for free due to my purchase price. Okay, to start off with tank info, my tank is relatively new, about a month and a half. I have biocube 29g, with the standard pump, live rock and sand, a protein skimmer, and I currently only have reticulated foam, and carbon. I have no circulation pump. Livestock: 1 Pistol Shrimp 3 Pom Pom Crabs 2 Peppermint Shrimp 2 Emerald Crabs Assorted hermits, most dwarf white leg hermits Nassarius and Cerith snails I also had hitch hiker vermitid snails, as well as some stomatella snalis. I know that I have quite an abundance of Copepods, my water column is normally swarmed with little white pods. I had a piece of blueish purple clove polyps and some meteor shower cyphastria I placed in the tank that have been in there for about a week or two now. Water Parameters: Ammonia: 0 Nitrate: 0 Ca+: 420 KH: 8.5 And that is all I can remember from the test I did last night. If any more water parameters are needed, I can get them, just ask. I use the API test kit for Ammonia and Nitrate, and then the Red Sea titration kits for the rest. |
09/12/2014, 10:32 AM | #2 |
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More Pictures, and Google "AutoAwesome" gif created by my phone from the pictures I took, that sort of shows it swimming.
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09/12/2014, 10:35 AM | #3 |
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Nevermind, the gif won't play on my laptop, but here is a link to G+ with the gif shared
https://plus.google.com/u/1/10282998...ts/dGnqvYVpqHj |
09/20/2014, 06:26 PM | #4 |
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0 nitrates? Are you sure you don't mean nitrite? Zero nitrates is bad.
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09/22/2014, 11:19 AM | #6 |
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Yeah why is it ?
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09/24/2014, 07:24 PM | #7 |
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Well, if you have zero nitrates, that's usually an indication that the tank isn't cycled completely. The nitrogen cycle goes ammonia -> nitrites -> nitrates, so you should end up with nitrates if all is well.
I suggest testing your water again. Unless something is consuming the nitrates, something like a macroalgae, there should be some.
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09/24/2014, 10:53 PM | #8 |
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Yeah I get that but after
it's cycled it's a good thing right |
09/24/2014, 11:07 PM | #9 |
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Zero nitrates is good, yes, but sometimes it's a sign that the cycle isn't complete. Check to make sure you have no nitrites. If no ammonia and nitrites, something is eating your nitrates. That's good.
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09/24/2014, 11:49 PM | #10 |
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Okay, but what are the little things swimming in the tank?!
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10/04/2014, 10:52 PM | #11 |
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Not sure. Can you get a close-up picture of the ones in the container?
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10/05/2014, 08:24 AM | #12 |
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From the description, likely crab or shrimp zoea.
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10/05/2014, 05:16 PM | #13 |
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Hmm, yes, that would fit.
In other terms, that means they're uber-baby crabs or shrimp that are still in the plankton instead of crawling.
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