Mr2Driver Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 so my 2.5 wasn't big enough for the live rock i got so i switched to a 4 gallon. i was originally planning on fuging the 2.5 but a small piece cracked off when i was removing the rim. whatever. anyway, its been set up since the 7th of this month, so 10 days today and theres these tiny white things darting around the tank and moving around on the glass, when i say tiny i mean tiny, like pin hole small but you can see them without any sort of magnification if you look for them. are they some sort of pods? is this a good thing or a bad thing? i dont have a test kit yet or a camera even worth trying to snap a picture of them, but the salinitys been good so far, thats kind of all i can tell you thou. another thing, when do hitchhikers usually start to show up? i'm not really hoping for anything, the live rock didn't seem very "alive" when i got it but it definitely would be cool Link to comment
metrokat Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 sigh. pods. get a life. Link to comment
Mr2Driver Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 *bigger sigh* well, since they're pods, i guess i already have life. you get an A for effort thou. Link to comment
metrokat Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 *bigger sigh* well, since they're pods, i guess i already have life. you get an A for effort thou. hehe. thanks. Link to comment
iball1804 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 sigh. pods. get a life. Man girrr be nice. Link to comment
metrokat Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Man girrr be nice. I was. read the title of the thread. I'm never rude, just FYI Link to comment
iball1804 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 I see the pun, understand the logic, but DANGNABIT I love your tank. Link to comment
ajmckay Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 iball, it's DAGNABBIT (from Elmer Fudd trying to say dang rabbit). Hahaha. Anyways, most of the hitch hikers you find are going to be in the form of pods, worms, snails, starfish, bacteria, sponges, algae, and other things. How quickly you see them or how diverse they are depends on your rock. Usually you begin to see them in 1-3 weeks. Give it a few more weeks then go look at your tank in the middle of the night. Use a red light source if you can, put a little bit of food in there, and most likely you'll see several little critters come up out of the rock and sand. Link to comment
iball1804 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 iball, it's DAGNABBIT (from Elmer Fudd trying to say dang rabbit). Well I say dangnabit. Link to comment
metrokat Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Was that meant for me? you likey my tank? Link to comment
iball1804 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Was that meant for me? you likey my tank? Well of course! Who did you think? Link to comment
metrokat Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Dangnabit. Thank you. :@) OP, reefing is your life or will soon take over your life. Welcome and have fun. Link to comment
iball1804 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Awww no problem! Reef= no money, no time, and no life. But we all love it Link to comment
Mr2Driver Posted October 18, 2011 Author Share Posted October 18, 2011 thanks guys, ill keep an eye out for some more Link to comment
lakshwadeep Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Ah, a tiny white things thread. The pods you're seeing are likely copepods. Read this, and the vast majority of your hitchhiker questions will be answered: http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchhikers.html Link to comment
PoeticInjustice Posted October 20, 2011 Share Posted October 20, 2011 Cool, I have this on my tank too! Link to comment
JBM Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 Reef= no money, no time, and no life. But we all love it speak for yourself Link to comment
GuySmily Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 We kept finding more and more stuff on our rock. Tiny shrimps, clove polyps, a hair/spaghetti worm, asterina star, brittle star... But I had ~20 lbs of rock that we dug up from the bottom of the live rock bins at the LFS's - we probably spent at least an hour picking out rocks at each store, and we had them bag the rocks with water because we wanted everything alive. Next time, I would bring a bin with salt water already in it. The rocks with lots of small holes and tiny crevices had the most life, but some rocks had absolutely nothing. Saw that you drive an a-dub. I miss my '86, but I love my MR-S even more. Link to comment
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