White dots on my glass

[coralfreak]

If any body aould help me to find out what this is!
I don't know if is bad or good, if it is a parasite or what?undefined

 

[Dangerdoll]

it depends...... do you have a pic of them? Are they egg-like? bigger? smaller? colored?

 

[itstheantitang]

they could be tiny snails
BTW do you have any snails or live rock?

 

[tonytwist007]

They may be 'pods which are good for your tank.

 

[mysis]

i have the same thing i think, like little tiny worms that are attached to the glass, all white in colour and like 2 mm long or something.

 

[Swimfins]

I have them also, on the back glass, white kind of semi-circular roundish. I believe they are tiny snails.

 

[mogurnda]

I'd bet on tiny fanworms. I get tons of them in the areas I don't scrape regularly. Look like hard little coils about a millimeter or two across. Because they're so tiny, it's often hard to see the fan.

 

[Swimfins]

sounds like those to me...
I tried googling but only come up with the large species fan worms like feather duster.
Are they pests or ok in the tank? Thanks.

 

[mogurnda]

Here's a marginal shot I took some time last year. It is now also in the hitchhiker sticky. It's about 2 mm across, and the fan is not extended. Hard to see even when it is.

They are not harmful, and never get very big.

 

[~*LuvMyKribs*~]

Yeah I have the ones mogurnda posted a pick of....
They little tube-worm like things? With a hard shell that sticks onto the glass? I razor mine off every month, not sure if i want them or not.... simply because they are unattractive