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tis mornin i woke up and saw something like spiderweb in my tank....and on da walls of the tank there is white dot stuff stickin .....and it MOVES...like ants.......what is that?r those things harmful?help me ........what should i do?

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tis mornin i woke up and saw something like spiderweb in my tank....and on da walls of the tank there is white dot stuff stickin .....and it MOVES...like ants.......what is that?r those things harmful?help me ........what should i do?

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about those spiderwebs, i am not very sure but used to have the same problems. maybe caused by leftover food. my Lr is contaminated with the spiderwebs and it smells awful. About the small white ants things, i got the same problems this morn. what i learned from other reefers, those are copepods. harmless and beneficial to the tank. correct me if i am wrong, fellow reefers.

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There is at least one genus of ubiquitous bacteria that has been isolated from corals (Euphyllia species, Catalaphyllia jardinei, and zoanthids) that also causes, or is part of the consortium that causes diseases in wild corals. It is a species of Beggiatoa, and it is often visible as white filaments or webs, occasionally becoming like mats or paste as the colony increases in density. Beggiatoa are gliding filamentous bacteria that tend to form cottony colonies or mats at interfaces between aerobic and anaerobic zones in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. They oxidize hydrogen sulfide produced in the anoxic zones, but can also grow heterotrophically using acetate as a carbon source and some can autotrophically use carbon dioxide. These microbes are found on sediment and substrate surfaces, including corals. They provide a valuable function in nutrient processing, and cannot be "eliminated." Being opportunistic coral pathogens to some species is unfortunate, but I am afraid it must be viewed in terms of the root factors that may have been involved in a coral becoming colonized and infected by Beggiatoa in the first place.

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I think it's vermetiid snails.

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