Doesn't look anything like a bacterial bloom to me. But the video/photo is really hard to tell what it is.
..what do you think this is? Parasite? Critter?
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Doesn't look anything like a bacterial bloom to me. But the video/photo is really hard to tell what it is.
Well, it pretty much impossible to shoot something so small with just a P&S camera unfortunately.
I took a few shots of the tank itself, though it probably isn't of much help either, since the particles move too fast to be anything better than a blur.
I took a few shots of the tank itself, though it probably isn't of much help either, since the particles move too fast to be anything better than a blur.
Do the organisms kind of move in a jumpy manner, or do they zip in straight lines through the water? I've had teeny little white organisms in my shrimp tank that would slightly jump as they propelled forward, but they were always very small populations, nothing like what you say you have. Could your nitrate levels be too high? That could possibly have killed your fish + contributed to the large population of tiny organisms you have now. Just a guess. I would suggest doing a 40-50% wc every day-every other day for a week or more to see if that will help decrease the number of critters in your tank. They may be thriving (directly or indirectly) from excess nutrients in your tank, and by diluting the level of excess nutrients, you remove their food source and therefore slow down their breeding rate.
It may be that the fish experienced to much shock in transport. Not all of the people who handle them are reading the instructions all of the time. Did the person who received the fish check the water they were shipped in ? I would guess that what is causing the cloudy water is suspended particulate matter. Try putting some filter floss in your filter for a few days and see if that helps.
The video in the first post will show that they move slowly and smoothly. What you had were probably copepods. Parameters in this tank are never above 0-0-5.
Well, whether or not this has any connection to the DOA, it's still unsightly and something I'd like to get rid of. I don't think it's suspended particulate matter simply because it can move, unless it's some strange act of neutral buoyancy that I don't understand... then again, science never was a strong subject for me.
I feel like either a micron filter or a UV sterilizer would solve this, whatever it is.. so expensive though..
Well, after my last post, I added an AC20 with prefilter and filled the entire chamber with floss. At first it looked like it help, but after closer examination, it was really more of an optical illusion created by the increased water movement, as well as the raising of the light fixture to fit the filter.
Even worse, another tank which shares the same water change bucket has also seemed to contracted a milder case of this problem. But that's really just my fault.
Even worse, another tank which shares the same water change bucket has also seemed to contracted a milder case of this problem. But that's really just my fault.
I had pondered the idea of moving one of my fan shrimp to see they can clear it out, but I had some in the contracted the tank and they didn't do anything, so that was ruled out. This though, did make me lean heavily towards it just being an extremely horrible case of suspended particles, so I added Accu-clear in hopes that if it is, the additional filter will catch the clumped-together particles. Clumsy me though, I ended up knocking the light fixture into the water. Best week ever.
I want to say no, but I really don't know much about ostracods.
Whatever is in my tank though is very small.. I can't get an accurate measurement of course, but they can't be any larger than 0.3mm
Whatever is in my tank though is very small.. I can't get an accurate measurement of course, but they can't be any larger than 0.3mm
