The weird stuff in my tank

[avilamillar]

Hey I have found this in my tank and took some pictures for you to see it. I'll appreciate if someone could help me with the ID.

Jellyfish? Cassiopeia Andromeda?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/DSC_4916.jpg

Blue Caulerpa?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/L1010192-2.jpg

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/L1010192.jpg

Some kind of Coral?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/DSC_5299.jpg

Baby snails? they're tinny. Collinista? Nerites(I've nerites' eggs everywhere)

They only come out at night and stay on the lower part of the glass that I dont clean and on the shells of my clams

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/DSC_5304.jpg

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/DSC_5295.jpg

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/L1010198.jpg

This is a bigger one(still pretty small) Collinista?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/DSC_5301.jpg

Also saw this guy releasing eggs/sperm last night. Nassarius?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn167/avilamillar/DSC_5310.jpg

Thanks

[allan]

I thought those snails were a stromella or something like that. Used to have a lot, now not so much.

As far as the blue algae. Never seen the color before. You're not missing a parakeet are ya?

[avilamillar]

No I'm not missing a parekeet hahaha. It's a weird color right?

Are you referring to the snail on the las pic or to the tinny ones? I do have lots of stomatella so the baby ones might be stomatella but the other im almost sure is a Nassarius

[allan]

Yes, the tiny ones. The last is a nassarius. They live under the sand but come out when you feed.

[Europhyllia]

I would say: exceptionally beautiful blue-green Brypsis and the little white snails are Collonista.

[grouch]

Ditto on the Bryopsis. That stuff will spead like crazy.

[avilamillar]

There are a few that kind of look like small stomatellas, but most look like Collonista. are they all going to survive? I have 100+ baby collinista

On that side filter is the only place I have found the bryopsis. Should I just pull it out? I dont want it to take over my tank :S

Thanks

[Europhyllia]

I'd take it out. It's pretty but it can make you very sad when you have it everywhere.

I have those Collonistas too. There's always grown ones and gazillions of babies. I never get gazillions of grown ones. Not sure what happens to them in between.

[justahobby]

No idea what that polyp coral is. Can you get some more photos of it? More close ups and a brief description of it's location in the tank, etc.

I am not 100% sure it is bryopsis... but I'm looking on my phone and probably missing details. Check some comparisons with different types of feather caulerpa, and see if anything eats it before committing to a full on war against bryopsis. Pruning is good, but make sure not to let fragments loose that could spread if it is an evasive algae like bryopsis. Anything you can remove, dip with H2O2. If you do a search on MAAST you will find several threads on the subject

Go ahead a bookmark this link. It will come in hand time and time again.
www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html (http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html)

[Third Coast Tropical]

The algae looks like Bryopsis. As a precaution, I would carefully remove it.

[avilamillar]

I'd take it out. It's pretty but it can make you very sad when you have it everywhere.

I have those Collonistas too. There's always grown ones and gazillions of babies. I never get gazillions of grown ones. Not sure what happens to them in between.

Too bad they wont grow to a nice size. Im sure they help to clean the tank anyways. They're tiny but numerous.


No idea what that polyp coral is. Can you get some more photos of it? More close ups and a brief description of it's location in the tank, etc.

I am not 100% sure it is bryopsis... but I'm looking on my phone and probably missing details. Check some comparisons with different types of feather caulerpa, and see if anything eats it before committing to a full on war against bryopsis. Pruning is good, but make sure not to let fragments loose that could spread if it is an evasive algae like bryopsis. Anything you can remove, dip with H2O2. If you do a search on MAAST you will find several threads on the subject

Go ahead a bookmark this link. It will come in hand time and time again.
www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html (http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html)

I'll try to post some more pics of the polyp tonight.

I did some comparisons and I think it is bryopsis. I think it's called Bryopsis Minor It looks like this one:

http://www.starfish.ch/photos/plants-Pflanzen/Bryopsis-minor2.jpg

http://www.starfish.ch/photos/plants-Pflanzen/Bryopsis-minor1.jpg

For now it's just located on a single spot on the glass but thanks for the tip of H2O2 and the link. Appreciate it.


The algae looks like Bryopsis. As a precaution, I would carefully remove it.

I think I'll do that. just as a precaution

Thanks

[FireWater]

Be very careful when removing it. Any lose strands can find a new home anywhere in your tank and then you will be fighting the bryopsis to a losing batttle.

The peroxide dip will work for any rocks that might be infected, but it is an indiscriminate solution. It will bleach everything.

The first pic? Could that be hydroids in an early stage?

[avilamillar]

Be very careful when removing it. Any lose strands can find a new home anywhere in your tank and then you will be fighting the bryopsis to a losing batttle.

The peroxide dip will work for any rocks that might be infected, but it is an indiscriminate solution. It will bleach everything.

The first pic? Could that be hydroids in an early stage?

I'll be doing a water change tomorrow, so I'll scrape the bryopsis while taking the water out of my tank so that any lose strands would go down the drain.

I did look at some hydrioid pics a few days ago. They look a lot like hydroids but after a few days they swim around like jellyfish.

[FireWater]

I have never experienced hydroids first hand so I am not 100% sure. I believe that they have a free swimming stage until they attach to a good spot for them.

Sounds like a good plan on removing the algae.

[avilamillar]

I have never experienced hydroids first hand so I am not 100% sure. I believe that they have a free swimming stage until they attach to a good spot for them.

Sounds like a good plan on removing the algae.

I'm not sure but they look more like the jellyfish here(below hydroids):

http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchodds.html

Are they a pest? I have been taking out the ones I see on the side filters of mi tank.

My tank has two side filters like the ones on the back of an all in one cube. There used to be sponges, bioballs, etc. in there but I have removed everything. I left the return pumps though, so there's still waterflow in there. I guess it makes a really good place for all this things to grow. I have also found flatworms there but anywhere else in the tank(I have 2 sixline wrasses). There's also lots of copepods, amphipods, etc.