der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
These were floating in my sump. About a mm in length. Kida dark reddish brown. I have never seen anything like this before.
Fish poop? Eggs?
ID this?
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These were floating in my sump. About a mm in length. Kida dark reddish brown. I have never seen anything like this before.
Fish poop? Eggs?
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
hard to tell from the pic but at first glance they look like snail poops
gary greguire
Premium Member
looks like mouse poo
jfl14609
Active member
Thats funny but true
Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
is it an open top sump? what's above it... any rafters where mice can go potty from?
I was thinking the same thing... Maybe a rabbitfish then?
Are they egg like or do they break apart? Throw one of them under the microscope and see what's going on!
der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
They do look like mouse turds but are smaller. Sump is open but is right under the tank, there is really no way a critter could be above the sump.
I will try for a closeup photo but they are really small. Too small to do any for of dissection unaided and I do not own a microscope.
The thing that gets me is they were floating...
I will try for a closeup photo but they are really small. Too small to do any for of dissection unaided and I do not own a microscope.
The thing that gets me is they were floating...
josh.vince
Premium Member
Definitely not rabbit pellets. 
They are round and much larger. I used to own rabbits.
But if someone is opening a betting line I'll put money on a rabbitfish.
They are round and much larger. I used to own rabbits.But if someone is opening a betting line I'll put money on a rabbitfish.
der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
No rabbitfish in the tank.
Livestock is typical cleanup crew and some small fish (chromis, clowns, gobies, a cardinal). I've had these fish for at least several months or years and I've seen most of them poop - it never looks like this. These are not like any fish poop I've seen before. I tried to break one up with a razor and I it was much denser/harder than I expected.
It's almost like pellet food, but after sitting in a tupperware of tank water since last night they're still hard and totally intact, they haven't broken down at all. I do feed NLS pellets but hadn't for maybe 12 hours before I found these, and at any rate the NLS pellets sink and break down fairly quickly.
Livestock is typical cleanup crew and some small fish (chromis, clowns, gobies, a cardinal). I've had these fish for at least several months or years and I've seen most of them poop - it never looks like this. These are not like any fish poop I've seen before. I tried to break one up with a razor and I it was much denser/harder than I expected.
It's almost like pellet food, but after sitting in a tupperware of tank water since last night they're still hard and totally intact, they haven't broken down at all. I do feed NLS pellets but hadn't for maybe 12 hours before I found these, and at any rate the NLS pellets sink and break down fairly quickly.
