Ahh! what are these?

[GrantMeThePower]

I was just examining my tank and i see tons of (and by tons i mean really hundreds it seems like) these little tiny...bugs, i guess i'd call them.

They literally look like little pieces of sand (maybe as big as two pieces of sand) that are moving around. I tried to take a picture, but obviously i couldn't get anything but blurry.

Any ideas???

 

[Playa-1]

Sounds like pods, A good thing

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/

 

[GrantMeThePower]

OH! hahahahaha!!! nice...i like that

edit- i never knew what pods looked like ;-)

 

[lloydkeller]

just pods great for the tank

 

[GrantMeThePower]

What exactly do the pods do?

edit- and how did they get there?

 

[greggnyce]

The pods are food for fish and corals. They also eat detritious and they come with live rock and live sand.

 

[Ne0eN]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13100094#post13100094 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GrantMeThePower
What exactly do the pods do?

edit- and how did they get there?

They just hang out, feed on even smaller pods...

The got there probably from Live Rock or Live Sand from an established system.

 

[1fishkeeper]

Or some of us just like to put them in our tanks from other tanks.

 

[jkdsr78]

Recently, I replaced some carbon filter media and saw several "bugs" moving on the outside of the meda. Now I know what they are.

 

[FutureBoyGenius]

Thats funny GrantMeThePower was worried about something that most of us have spent hours trying to innovate ways to get. I hope I can complain about some granular sized bugs here in a couple weeks :lol:

 

[greggnyce]

Lol.