What are these white dots all over the bottom of my tank.

[disaster999]

Noticing these white dots scattered all over the bottom of my tank. They just kinda appeared one day. At first I thought it was some loose debris but when I did a water change and used to hose to try vacuuming them up they are pretty stuck to the bottom of my tank. I hope they arent feather dusters.

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Possibly start to coraline algae.

 

[disaster999]

Possibly start to coraline algae.

Dont get my hopes up

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Dont get my hopes up

That’s how mine started. I’m the rocks too. All white.

 

[slingfox]

If the white specs are perfectly circular or oval it could be snails laying eggs. My snails lay eggs everywhere. Easy to scape off the areas I want to keep clean. I leave some area unscraped for longer periods in hopes baby snails will appear one day.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Are they little white spirals? If so, its a type of worm that always makes these spriral shells in new tanks. They seem to disappear after a while.

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Noticing these white dots scattered all over the bottom of my tank. They just kinda appeared one day. At first I thought it was some loose debris but when I did a water change and used to hose to try vacuuming them up they are pretty stuck to the bottom of my tank. I hope they arent feather dusters.

Hard to tell, but could be spirorbid worms. Harmless filter feeders. Do they look like little curls?

 

[disaster999]

Are they little white spirals? If so, its a type of worm that always makes these spriral shells in new tanks. They seem to disappear after a while.

If the white specs are perfectly circular or oval it could be snails laying eggs. My snails lay eggs everywhere. Easy to scape off the areas I want to keep clean. I leave some area unscraped for longer periods in hopes baby snails will appear one day.

Hard to tell, but could be spirorbid worms. Harmless filter feeders. Do they look like little curls?

not too curly at the moment. it does look kinda irregular. Ill keep monitoring it and see if they curl up in a few days