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tiny little worms.. EVERYWHERE!!! El Scorcho 04-14-2005
Posted by El Scorcho on April 14, 2005, 8:38 pm
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I just realized that what I first thought was dust or algea are really
tiny little worms. these things are everywhere.. all over the glass of
my 29G.
they look like miniature grains of rice or tiny maggots.. nasty.
what can I do to get rid of these? because of a calcium overdose most
of my fish died, I only have a yellow tail damsel lef, of all things..
(why couldn't the frozen brine eating mandarin have survived
instead!!!!) even my cleaner shrimp died...
the snails don't seem to enjoy the little worms.
any advice would be greatly appreciated..


Posted by Rich R on April 14, 2005, 9:42 pm
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sounds like pods,,,they are fine dont worry. Fish love to eat them

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>I just realized that what I first thought was dust or algea are really
> tiny little worms. these things are everywhere.. all over the glass of
> my 29G.
> they look like miniature grains of rice or tiny maggots.. nasty.
> what can I do to get rid of these? because of a calcium overdose most
> of my fish died, I only have a yellow tail damsel lef, of all things..
> (why couldn't the frozen brine eating mandarin have survived
> instead!!!!) even my cleaner shrimp died...
> the snails don't seem to enjoy the little worms.
> any advice would be greatly appreciated..
>
>




Posted by Billy on April 14, 2005, 9:43 pm
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> sounds like pods,,,they are fine dont worry. Fish love to eat them
>

The mandarin, in particular, was probably keeping the population
down.



Posted by Pszemol on April 15, 2005, 12:37 am
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> they look like miniature grains of rice or tiny maggots.. nasty.

these could be isopods, amphipods copepods and more other things
Compare images below and try to match what you see with the proper name.
http://images.google.com/images?q=isopods+amphipods+copepods&hl=pl&lr=&start=20&sa=N&filter=0

> what can I do to get rid of these?

before you try to rid of them make sure they are not good for the system.

> because of a calcium overdose most of my fish died,
> I only have a yellow tail damsel lef, of all things..

Just curious, but how did you overdose calcium to kill all fish ?


Posted by Marc Levenson on April 15, 2005, 1:08 am
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If they look like maggots, they are these:
http://melevsreef.com/id/polychaete_worm.html

Marc


El Scorcho wrote:

> I just realized that what I first thought was dust or algea are really
> tiny little worms. these things are everywhere.. all over the glass of
> my 29G.
> they look like miniature grains of rice or tiny maggots.. nasty.
> what can I do to get rid of these? because of a calcium overdose most
> of my fish died, I only have a yellow tail damsel lef, of all things..
> (why couldn't the frozen brine eating mandarin have survived
> instead!!!!) even my cleaner shrimp died...
> the snails don't seem to enjoy the little worms.
> any advice would be greatly appreciated..
>

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