What are these things?

[chemaholic]

I was about to head to bed and I noticed all these time black specks hopping around on the sand near the front glass. They are creepy little buggers but I need to know if they are dangerous or not. I am attaching some pictures. They seem to be staying around my nassarius snails mostly. They remind me of fleas. The pictures suck. The critters look like little black specks but when you zoom in they look like they have a long trunk or tail. They almost look like tiny tadpoles.

 

[1mbrews8]

well, I see flatworms, so maybe babies of those?

 

[chemaholic]

Yuck. Well maybe my wrasse will eat a bunch. I can use my turkey baster to suck them up too.

 

[jcook54]

Huh. That's a new one on me. Please let u know if you figure it out. I see what looks like a flatworm (center) and two chitons (bottom left, bottom center). I can see the black dots but can't make out what the heck they might be. It's possible the 'chitons' are limpets but I've been noticing a lot more tanks with these small white chitons. I've found a few in my systems and it's a fairly recent development. That black things? I'm stumped.

If you've got some time, I'm sure there's mention of them on Wet Web Media but it takes a lot of digging around. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/index.htm

 

[chemaholic]

Yeah my tank has tons of chitons. I did not even see the flat worm. I will as my wife to take a sample of them to the school and put them under the microscope. If she can get some decent pictures I will post them. I guess at night all the wild stuff in the tank comes out to play.

 

[jcook54]

You know, it may not be a flatworm. It almost looks like a small limpet now that I check it out. Usually a flatworm will be a consistent color until the center or "gut" of the thing. It also usually has a "U" shape on one end. The critter I've been looking at and calling a flatworm has a cream center and then a consistent different color all around it - like a limpet would. Unless there's something else I'm not seeing or focusing on, I think it's a limpet.

 

[hiimsean]

I think they’re limpets or chitons not flat worms. I feel like most the flatworms you see on glass are the red ones. The rounded ones are typically AEFW and would be found on SPS and rarely on your glass.

 

[Givmeanf]

Huh. That's a new one on me. Please let u know if you figure it out. I see what looks like a flatworm (center) and two chitons (bottom left, bottom center). I can see the black dots but can't make out what the heck they might be. It's possible the 'chitons' are limpets but I've been noticing a lot more tanks with these small white chitons. I've found a few in my systems and it's a fairly recent development. That black things? I'm stumped.

If you've got some time, I'm sure there's mention of them on Wet Web Media but it takes a lot of digging around. http://www.wetwebmedia.com/marine/index.htm

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