Worm like things in seahorse tank?

[wendy32693]

Theres no way I can get a picture of these as they are very tiny and thin as a hair. I just noticed these in the tank right after I had fed some live baby brine. Theres hundreds floating at the top of the water and crawling on the glass. Are these bad and what could these be??

 

[wendy32693]

This is the best picture I could get, its the white specs floating at the top of the water.

 

[rayjay]

This must be a dwarf tank as you are feeding bbs. (or a fry tank)
Was this batch of brine cysts from a container you haven't used before?
Were the cysts decapped or sterilized before hatching?
Was the tank system and live rock/contents sterile before adding the seahorses?
At the very least, until you can identify what they are, I'd remove the floaters with the bbs net/mesh, and siphon out what you can of the ones on the glass using a piece of 3/16ths airline tubing.
Going to be pretty hard to ID without decent pictures though.

 

[wendy32693]

Yes its dwarf seahorses. This tank has been setup for around 5 months now. Everything was sterile when I had first set up the tank. Ive used the bottle of decaped brine eggs plenty of times, same bottle but they just showed up after I fed them this morning. The only camera I have is on my phone and these worm things are very tiny they dont show up in the pic.

 

[rayjay]

Maybe you could get a friend with a good camera to get close up detailed pictures to post.

 

[wendy32693]

Im a member on a local forum for houston area but everyone on there is about 1 hour 30 minutes away from where I live so unfortunatly not many people are willing to drive that far especially to take pictures for me.

The best I can explain them is they are very small like the size of the hole on a sewing needle, clear white, thin as a hair, and had to be introduced into the tank from from the container of the baby brine ive had hatched about 2 days but just showed up today as I havnt seen them with other feeding from the same batch.

 

[rayjay]

Heck, it doesn't have to be another hobbyist it can be a next door neighbour with a decent camera and the know how to use it.

 

[wendy32693]

no neighbors I know of have one or anyone I know. plus I dont really know them as they are older and I am 19, they dont seem to be too interested in socializing with younger people I suppose. I will try to keep searching online for an answer. I also figured out I have flatworms in the tank, not a lot but I read they were good since they are white, is that right? or should I do something to get rid of them.

 

[timinnl]

They most likely came in with the marcoalgae I see in your tank. What do you have in the tank with them? Sorry not much help with the ID part.

Kind Regards,

Tim

 

[wendy32693]

The most recent thing ive added was blue ochtodes a couple weeks ago, other stuff is caulpera, green grape, sea whip and just 2 small zoa frags. And two stalks of pulsing xenia