white little bugs

[g0rFz]

so i just seen some microscopic tiny white dots all over the acrylic, but it isnt on the fish. i thought it could be ich but with the amount i saw, its probably been there at least a week or two, and ich would have overtaken the fish.

any ideas it is small with a tail looks like a tadpole but white and smaller than a grain of sand.

also looks smaller than copepods

[bertoni]

Moved to New to the Hobby as more on topic here.

If they move around, perhaps they're a type of copepod or isopod.

[g0rFz]

well are there different kinds and sizes of pods? i hope you are right because i would be pretty mad if i acquired ich ...

like i said, copepods are about the size of a grain of sand while these little things are about 1/5 that...

[bertoni]

Marine ich won't show up as white spots on the glass. There are thousands of species of copepods. You might also be seeing mysid shrimp of some sort.

[VacavilleFC3S]

pods

[60Cubed]

If you have a tank and fish, ich is more than likely present already. It just isn't infecting the fish at this moment. Unless you dip all of your fish, you have it!

[DarthSimon]

60Cubed....
Are you saying all fish or tanks have ich??

[crvz]

DarthSimon, I've heard that all tanks likely carry some dormant ich parasites, but I've never had a problem with it. In this case, it's much more likely to be copepods over anything else.

[bertoni]

I don't think anyone knows how many tanks contain marine ich.

[Johnny C]

yeah... although I'm a newbie, that sounds very far-fetched!