Hey y’all, I need some help. I’ve got a more detailed background of my tank on my build thread, I’m going to post a few pics and if anyone can help me ID I would be so thankful. I’m going to have to restart my tank & rip clean, especially with all these issues, but I would still like to know what all this is, for knowledge.
The small white worms look like sand. Like a literal rope made from sand. They don’t move much, mostly just half their body (?) either up/down or left/right. i circled them in red but it’s so hard to see them with only a picture. The videos are much better. Also, hard to see in pic, videos better, but i was told I have a mantis shrimp, which someone from the forums said they don’t know but it’s definitely not a mantis, it’s also circled in red. It looks kinda long and will use it’s from arms to dig at the sand from underneath and when the sand falls or it gets startled, it’ll quickly retreat back into that slit in the sand. i also have these microscopic brown things that move all over my glass. I was told flat worms by LFS (same one that said kill my livestock, bleach the tank, and get new livestock since, as he put it, no life matters and can just be replaced) but they’re way too small. It’s like a brown haze over the glass in certain areas but when I zoom in very close with my phone camera I can see them moving. In this pic, they’re just tiny brown dots. But they do move and it’s clear there is a lot of them. lastly, I have some weird black stuff on my rock and two possible sponges. Both in blue. One is white and one is like a dull but bright lime green. The black stuff on my rock is in a few patches, pretty small area, and it looks kind of fuzzy but not super thick of a patch. There is some white specks all over the black spots, not sure what it is. There is another pic of this bubble that is literally suspended by something, like a balloon. its in blue also, including these bubbles all over the rock next to it, which I circled. And in another pic, in red, there is some weird white-ish silky slimy stuff on the rock and idk what that is either. Thank you all in advance I’m sorry this is so long I’m just stressed out beyond words over all this.
The small white worms look like sand. Like a literal rope made from sand. They don’t move much, mostly just half their body (?) either up/down or left/right. i circled them in red but it’s so hard to see them with only a picture. The videos are much better. Also, hard to see in pic, videos better, but i was told I have a mantis shrimp, which someone from the forums said they don’t know but it’s definitely not a mantis, it’s also circled in red. It looks kinda long and will use it’s from arms to dig at the sand from underneath and when the sand falls or it gets startled, it’ll quickly retreat back into that slit in the sand. i also have these microscopic brown things that move all over my glass. I was told flat worms by LFS (same one that said kill my livestock, bleach the tank, and get new livestock since, as he put it, no life matters and can just be replaced) but they’re way too small. It’s like a brown haze over the glass in certain areas but when I zoom in very close with my phone camera I can see them moving. In this pic, they’re just tiny brown dots. But they do move and it’s clear there is a lot of them. lastly, I have some weird black stuff on my rock and two possible sponges. Both in blue. One is white and one is like a dull but bright lime green. The black stuff on my rock is in a few patches, pretty small area, and it looks kind of fuzzy but not super thick of a patch. There is some white specks all over the black spots, not sure what it is. There is another pic of this bubble that is literally suspended by something, like a balloon. its in blue also, including these bubbles all over the rock next to it, which I circled. And in another pic, in red, there is some weird white-ish silky slimy stuff on the rock and idk what that is either. Thank you all in advance I’m sorry this is so long I’m just stressed out beyond words over all this.