Tiny Black Bugs??

[jkhalliday76]

Today I noticed a bunch of tiny black bug-like creatures crawling on my LR and coral substrate. They are really, really small, much too small for a camera to catch. Think grain of sand. They're black and are moving. They seem to prefer the one rock that 3 of my snails hang out all the time and are on the substrate all around the base of the rock.

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[Woodstock]

Baby cerith snails??

Click on this link then scroll down to the Pyramidellid & Coral Eating Snails??? question... there is a photo of tiny black snails....
http://wetwebmedia.com/swsnailfaqs2.htm

per Anothony Calfo: <the tiny black "snails" in the first photo are Cerith and are HIGHLY desirable detritivores! They breed easily and scavenge well.'

 

[jkhalliday76]

I guess it could be them in a much smaller phase?

 

[Woodstock]

Try to get a picture of them.

 

[jkhalliday76]

I tried....and failed to come up with anything that might help i.d.

Maybe this will help...they are moving much faster than a snail would move.

 

[jkhalliday76]

I can't get the pic to be big enough for this to make a difference :grr:

 

[jkhalliday76]

I think I finally figured out the picture thing...phew!

Does anyone see the many tiny black buglike creatures? Anyone know what they are??

 

[daveat]

i think that as small as they are i wouldn't worry too much about it just now... but i don't think i see ANYTHING that is identifiable

 

[jkhalliday76]

I'll try not to worry...it just seems like whatever they are, they're taking over my tank...maybe it's time to get some fish to eat em up??!

 

[daveat]

try a mandarin, they only eat live natural foods (pods, live brine)

 

[gussy]

I don't see anything...

 

[Witfull]

I don't see anything...

look on the upper left in the curve of the rock, you can see lil pinpoint specks.

 

[jkhalliday76]

Sorry about the picture quality. I hoped that a bad picture would be better than no picture. But yes, as Witful said, in the upper left curve of the rock you can KIND OF see teeny tiny black bug like creatures. They're just little dots...I'm just hoping they're not some kind of parasitic infestation.

 

[jkhalliday76]

Oh yeah, and I'm a true beginner, so I don't want to even deal with a mandarin to start...I think that will just frustrate me!