Is this ICH/velvet on live rock??? Definitely some parasite what to do?

[Arose231]

This has to be ich. These little parasites are sitting on my live rock. Have no fish in my tank other than my porcupine puffer a snowflake eel and some inverts. Puffer is immune to the ich so is the eel.

 

[Muppy]

lol

 

[Arose231]

lol

If you have nothing to say then ****

 

[Maritimer]

It's not impossible that there's ich on the rock ... but so far as I'm aware, it would be invisible to the naked eye, so that's not it.

~B.

 

[Arose231]

It's not impossible that there's ich on the rock ... but so far as I'm aware, it would be invisible to the naked eye, so that's not it.

~B.

Yea it’s these little tiny brown parasites moving around not sure what it is then

 

[Maritimer]

Moving around?

Could be 'pods. Most copepods, isopods and amphipods are beneficial scavengers / CUC and tasty snacks for fish. Ich encysts shortly after landing on the rock, and when the cysts break open, rises into the water column, so ...

~B.

 

[Devin6871]

Most likely some variety of benthic copepod. It's almost impossible to tell specifics without getting one of them under a microscope

 

[Arose231]

Moving around?

Could be 'pods. Most copepods, isopods and amphipods are beneficial scavengers / CUC and tasty snacks for fish. Ich encysts shortly after landing on the rock, and when the cysts break open, rises into the water column, so ...

~

Moving around?

Could be 'pods. Most copepods, isopods and amphipods are beneficial scavengers / CUC and tasty snacks for fish. Ich encysts shortly after landing on the rock, and when the cysts break open, rises into the water column, so ...

~

Most likely some variety of benthic copepod. It's almost impossible to tell specifics without getting one of them under a microscope

Yea they are sitting on my starfish as well which is an invert so it would be hard to believe it’s ich