travis32
09/29/2010, 06:32 AM
O.k. I knew I had some flatworms.. Not a lot, I left them alone, thought maybe they'd be food for a wrasse or something in the future. nothing like a free food supply someday right? And who knows, maybe my betta will get tired enough of flake food and eat some flat worms...
Well.... Recently the timer on my PC lights got messed up and I decided to leave the light off a couple days. I started to have some outbreaks of cyano and with the timer being screwed up, I said screw it. I'll let the lights be off two days in a row and then fix the timer... That's what I did.
Well, I come to turn the lights back on.... and OMG, I can hardly see through the glass. The Asterina starfish spawned so much that the glass was covered in starfish. (a few here and there were on some corals, but I think they just eat dead tishua. I scrape them off as necessary and things are good.)
Well, in addition to the outbreak of asterinas, my glass is covered in large, highly visible reddish orange flat worms. Between the starfish and worms, it's actually hard to see through the tank...
So, did the lights off just trigger a spawning cycle in the asterinas and worms? And is that a good sign or a bad sign? Spawning is generally thought of as good. Not sure if it's good in terms of starfish and flat worms though....
Well.... Recently the timer on my PC lights got messed up and I decided to leave the light off a couple days. I started to have some outbreaks of cyano and with the timer being screwed up, I said screw it. I'll let the lights be off two days in a row and then fix the timer... That's what I did.
Well, I come to turn the lights back on.... and OMG, I can hardly see through the glass. The Asterina starfish spawned so much that the glass was covered in starfish. (a few here and there were on some corals, but I think they just eat dead tishua. I scrape them off as necessary and things are good.)
Well, in addition to the outbreak of asterinas, my glass is covered in large, highly visible reddish orange flat worms. Between the starfish and worms, it's actually hard to see through the tank...
So, did the lights off just trigger a spawning cycle in the asterinas and worms? And is that a good sign or a bad sign? Spawning is generally thought of as good. Not sure if it's good in terms of starfish and flat worms though....