ID please

[abreeann]

These just showed up yesterday on our magnetic cleaner. The cleaner it kept inside and at the top of the tank. We have several other pests that we've dealt with but I've never seen this before. TIA

 

[JGT]

These just showed up yesterday on our magnetic cleaner. The cleaner it kept inside and at the top of the tank. We have several other pests that we've dealt with but I've never seen this before. TIA

Appears to be bubble algae. Is it green? Can’t tell with blue lights.

 

[abreeann]

Appears to be bubble algae. Is it green? Can’t tell with blue lights.

Not green. That's why I'm so stumped. Solid darker color with an orange-red dot on each little ball. I have a pair of ocularis clownfish but I don't think these are their eggs at all.

 

[JGT]

Not green. That's why I'm so stumped. Solid darker color with an orange-red dot on each little ball. I have a pair of ocularis clownfish but I don't think these are their eggs at all.

Hmm, yes, me too. Too big to be clown eggs. Do you have Caulerpa in your tank? Color isn’t right but shape is similar.

 

[abreeann]

Hmm, yes, me too. Too big to be clown eggs. Do you have Caulerpa in your tank? Color isn’t right but shape is similar.

Nope.

Tank is about a year and a half old. Right now we are dealing with aptisias (round two after we thought the bergia got rid of all of them just to have 4 now appear after no sign of them for several weeks), vermetids, gha, cyano (red slime), and some diatoms. Stuff went majorly out of wack after a sick fish got into the display tank back in the spring (never skipping quarantine again) and ended up losing several fish. This just looks completely different.

 

[JGT]

Nope.

Tank is about a year and a half old. Right now we are dealing with aptisias (round two after we thought the bergia got rid of all of them just to have 4 now appear after no sign of them for several weeks), vermetids, gha, cyano (red slime), and some diatoms. Stuff went majorly out of wack after a sick fish got into the display tank back in the spring (never skipping quarantine again) and ended up losing several fish. This just looks completely different.

Indeed. Others will chime in. Did you try removing it? Is it soft/hard? Does it move?

 

[abreeann]

Indeed. Others will chime in. Did you try removing it? Is it soft/hard? Does it move?

I was hoping to identify before touching them. They appear to be hard and don't move at all when I move the scrapper.

 

[JGT]

I was hoping to identify before touching them. They appear to be hard and don't move at all when I move the scrapper.

OK, will tag a couple of guys who are good at iding URO’s. @SHNICI and @vetteguy53081

 

[abreeann]

OK, will tag a couple of guys who are good at iding URO’s. @SHNICI and @vetteguy53081

Thank you for your help!

 

[JGT]

Thank you for your help!

No prob, that’s what this forum is all about. I’m curious myself to learn what they might be.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Looks like bubble algae or segrapes from caulerpa. It may help to add one more pic under white lights

 

[abreeann]

Looks like bubble algae or segrapes from caulerpa. It may help to add one more pic under white lights

Here's a shot with the whites turned up. We don't have any caulerpa.

 

[JGT]

Looks like bubble algae or segrapes from caulerpa. It may help to add one more pic under white lights

I said both of those things and got shot down.

 

[abreeann]

Figured out what it was. Broken thermometer. Have been removed and used magnet to find all others I could find in the sand bed and on rocks.

Working on getting carbon to run and an ICP test.