White parasites floating in my tank

[Gligor]

Hello everyone. I noticed this from yesterday. At first I tough that I have bacteria bloom, but when I turned off the pumps there were millions of small white things swimming in the water, and moving on the glass. What this could be? They are to small for me to get a clearer picture...

 

[Gligor]

Anyone please?

 

[Cell]

Probably copepods. Also, patience. It's a work day.

 

[IKD]

Agree with @Cell Most likely copepods on the glass.

 

[Gligor]

Does that mean I can introduce mandarin dragonett? I always wanted one of them. But my tank is really new (one month). It is 52gal tank with two clowns, some feather dusters and starfish that came out from the live rock, candy cane coral, gsp, xenia and gorgonian. I used live rock that was in a fowlr tank for more than 15 years when I first started it.

 

[Katrina71]

I would wait a year for a mandarin. They are delicate little guys that literally eat all day.

 

[IKD]

Yes but you will need to feed phyto or other similar food stuffs to keep the populations up. Otherwise they tend to drop off over time and starve our mandarins

Also, it looks like an acropora in your tank picture. Not a great chance of success if your tank is only a month old.

 

[Gligor]

Yes but you will need to feed phyto or other similar food stuffs to keep the populations up. Otherwise they tend to drop off over time and starve our mandarins

Also, it looks like an acropora in your tank picture. Not a great chance of success if your tank is only a month old.

Thank you very much. Btw that is not acrpopra, that is a coras skeleton that i put in so the tank won't look so empty. Here is a picture of my tank. The lights are DIY, but the tank isn't nearly as blue as in the photo.

 

[Gligor]

I also noticed something on the wave maker. Some of them move. Are these also copepods, or something else (bacteria/fungus)?

 

[Cell]

If they move, probably just more pods. With nothing to eat them, they will thrive.