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    Posted: November 27 2008 at 12:04pm
Added a new fish yesterday, and a few hours later I noticed hundreds of TINY (like the size of the tip of a needle, Some a little bigger) white almost transparent things that almost look like spiders or something running all over my glass.  I dont think they are on the fish, and I dont see them on the rocks, but they are EVERYWHERE on my glass.

I'd get a picture but they are way too dang small.

The fish is a Koran Angel, and I did acclimate him in a bucket with a light dose of copper which I havent done before.

Only other thing I did is tried a cheap Top fin brand Sinking community pellet, but I used it in my other tanks and they dont seem to have these little critters.
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Hydroid jellies? Isopods?

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Sounds like pods to me.
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They dont really look like pods... and they dont seem to be in the water, JUST on the glass.

Pluss this tank is quite new, so not very live sand or rock, and no Fuge. So I dont know here hundreds and hundreds of pods would appear from all the sudden.

I WISH they were pods Angry
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Hydroid jellies is my thought.
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All 3 tanks I have ever set up have this same thing happen. Mine have always been pods. They are tiny and look like white dots but after a few days you see them start to take shape. My guess is pods but I am no expert.

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sounds like jellies, did you dump the store water into your tank? hydroids normally come with newly set up tanks and after so long they dissapear.
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No i  didnt pour the store water in my tank, I used it to acclimate, and did that with copper. so Any inverts would have been killed anyway.

I have looked all over the net for a pic or more info on hydriods, and Im not seeing much
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 Something could have spawned... any inverts in the tank?
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All of my tanks have them. the fish will eventuall y eat them
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They dont look like the picture, they look just lilke little ants or spiders, if you look really close they seem to have a two part body and alot of legs.


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Originally posted by ssilcox ssilcox wrote:

 Something could have spawned... any inverts in the tank?


The only thing in the tank is three aggressive fish, about 30 lbs of rock that isnt alive yet, and two hermit crabs, one HUGE, one small.

If it was my frag tank with tons of live stuff and inverts I'd think it was pods or hydriods, etc.

I am thinking it is something that was on the fish, but dont know why the copper dip wouldnt have killed them
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I would guess pods, have they dropped in population now?  Every new tank is going to have a pod explosion due to the fact that the few that are there reproduce and until your tank balances out and supply and demand deminishes you will have a ton of pods.  Expecially if you dont have anything in there to eat them.  I remember when I set up my tank using one live rock and the rest Utah Rock it took about 2 or 3 weeks for the pods to look like sand al over my sand bed.  It looked like the sand was moving at night but it was just pods, they died off when or got eaten when I put fish in. my 2 cents
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