Snowflakes on my Glass [Archive]

mlefessler

04-22-2009, 5:17 PM

I know that the little white snowflakes that are attached to the glass are normal in newly established tanks.

I looked a few of them up - hydroid? And they look like the one that's in my tank but none of them have the long, stringy tentacles that flow in the current. Is that something else or is that a hydroid of some sort?

ToeJam

04-22-2009, 6:01 PM

I know that the little white snowflakes that are attached to the glass are normal in newly established tanks.

I looked a few of them up - hydroid? And they look like the one that's in my tank but none of them have the long, stringy tentacles that flow in the current. Is that something else or is that a hydroid of some sort?

Get a close up pic of it with a camera or camphone.

hard to tell..sometimes they are worms that leave this flake like look sometimes spiral..

or annoying pest starfish very tiny tiny ones and they do look like snow flakes..

Hyrdoids dont know I'll have to google that..me and scientific names don't get along.

mlefessler

04-22-2009, 9:12 PM

Here's a shot from the side glass.

Funny, I thought they were flat and had long tentacles, but apparently it's a little jellyfish lookin' type thing....

redfishblewfish

04-22-2009, 10:30 PM

From the pic my guess is what you stated in the OP....Order Hydroida.

Here's the textbook photo

http://i419.photobucket.com/albums/pp271/psh54/hydracti.jpg

Amphiprion

04-22-2009, 11:06 PM

Eek, Hydroida has been phased out for a while now. Anthoathecatae is the accepted order now. It is a hydroid polyp, however. Possibly Cladonema or Staurocladia.

redfishblewfish

04-22-2009, 11:51 PM

Hey I’m old…so old that when I took Biology man had 48 chromosomes.

Amphiprion

04-23-2009, 12:43 AM

Hey I’m old…so old that when I took Biology man had 48 chromosomes.

Ha, it's all good. It had just been so long since I had heard anyone use that order, I had forgotten about it. Everything changes quickly and often. I'm young, but the whole 5 kingdom system I originally learned no longer really applies anymore. The next thing that comes to mind is the algal classification--plants, then protists, then plants again.

cM iPro v3

07-04-2009, 2:41 PM

looks too me like a jellyfish but could also be a Hydroid.

OldManOfTheSea

07-04-2009, 2:53 PM

Hey I’m old…so old that when I took Biology man had 48 chromosomes.

I wish I were 55 of age right now, I might keep up better with my grandchildren.

Buddy