deepreeftank
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there are these little white curls on the glass they used to only be on the black overflows built onto the tank but now they hace moved to the side of the glass. i was wondering if anyone knew what they are?
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little curls on glass
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Lunchbucket
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sound like little feather duster tubes. it is a good sign to have them populate
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Lunchbucket
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deepreeftank
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i ordereda mandrin and a tang will that eat them?
MedicineMan1
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Neither a tang nor a mandarin will eat them if they truly are feather dusters.
deepreeftank
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i do not think they are feather dusters...
Sea Critter
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HI Brandon,
The little white tubes could be foraminiferans. Are they tiny flattened spiral shaped hard tubes attached to the glass? These have tiny "threads" they extend out, and don't move. Red Colony tube worms are a "featherduster" with a calcareous shell and tiny, bright red "dusters" that grow in tubes lenghtwise, and grow in clumps of tubes stuck together. They can start out growing on the glass. Other featherdusters would have a soft brownish/grey tube with clear to whitish dusters.
And just for clarification -
the Phylum is Annelid (all segmented worms), and Polychaete is one class within the phylum, which includes most of the marine worms. Fish like wrasses will eat them most likely.
Teresa
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The little white tubes could be foraminiferans. Are they tiny flattened spiral shaped hard tubes attached to the glass? These have tiny "threads" they extend out, and don't move. Red Colony tube worms are a "featherduster" with a calcareous shell and tiny, bright red "dusters" that grow in tubes lenghtwise, and grow in clumps of tubes stuck together. They can start out growing on the glass. Other featherdusters would have a soft brownish/grey tube with clear to whitish dusters.
And just for clarification -
the Phylum is Annelid (all segmented worms), and Polychaete is one class within the phylum, which includes most of the marine worms. Fish like wrasses will eat them most likely.
Teresa
Sea Critters Homepage
Those are likely Spirorbid fanworms.
Vermetid gastropods (or tube-snails) tend to build darker-colored tubes. As already mentioned, the happy tribe of polychaetes include those tubiculous "fan" and "featherduster" worms everyone loves.
Forams? They can tend to populate grubbier, less lighted locations than tank glass, and besides, Spirorbids are a much more common occurence on the glass of new-ish reeftanks.
Your tang is unlikely to eat these little worms, and so too your mandarin, which tends to go after small crustaceans like amphipods. Habitual browse-and-pick feeders like butterflys (or most any other browsing omnivores) will.
Why would you want to kill the worms off?
horge
Vermetid gastropods (or tube-snails) tend to build darker-colored tubes. As already mentioned, the happy tribe of polychaetes include those tubiculous "fan" and "featherduster" worms everyone loves.
Forams? They can tend to populate grubbier, less lighted locations than tank glass, and besides, Spirorbids are a much more common occurence on the glass of new-ish reeftanks.
Your tang is unlikely to eat these little worms, and so too your mandarin, which tends to go after small crustaceans like amphipods. Habitual browse-and-pick feeders like butterflys (or most any other browsing omnivores) will.
Why would you want to kill the worms off?
horge
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