OKay guys so im looking at my tank and looking at some weird things on my rock one thing that caught my eyes was some liek burgandy things growing from the rock they arent big but little burgandy spots all over the rocks..and im inspecting them and im notciing little white things crawling all over these little spots i mean they are probably all over the rocks but i can only notice these things on my burgandy spots WHAT ARE THESE? they look like white little fleas its werid!:wow:

sounds like copepods to me. hard to get a pic of so, do they look like this ??

Those Little White Bugs In Your Saltwater Aquarium Profiled - Classification Information and Facts About Copepods and Amphipods (http://saltaquarium.about.com/cs/pestscopepods/a/aa061200.htm)

YOu know that is what i tink they might be but they are so small i cant tell what exactly they look like they are jsut white specks lol.. are tehy bad? oh just found out all my levels are leveld out..

Probably some pods. A good sign for sure. Check out this page and see if anything looks familiar.

Melev's Reef - Visual Identification (http://www.melevsreef.com/id/pods.html)

congrats on the parameters !!

the pods are great !! dont try to get rid of them, however dont run out and buy a mandarin or anything just yet either !! lol

Copepods are so small they are hard to identify by the naked eye, They are beneficial and desired members of a SW tank. The red spots are probably the start of some tube worms or coralline algae, Either way , they are not anything to worry about.

great link Pearson !!

wooohooo nothing but good news the lats few days with the tank i am really getting excited im so happy to see even with jsut the live sand and rock that thigns are flourishing in my little tank.. i was beginning be become a bit skeptical and doubting myself but i stuck through it.. im so happy and you guys are such a big help!

You are definitely moving in the right direction!

You will have harder things to get through....this hobby is not all science yet. Chances are something will happen that we haven't experienced yet, or dont have the answers too. The thing is that you cannot give up just because you have a set back or minor failure. You have to look at this hobby as like humans landing on the moon. There is still a lot of learning that needs to be done.

Hello JerseyGirl! ;) Glad things are coming along nicely with your tank. I used to stare into my tank and had trouble really getting a good look at certain things also, so I bought myself a magnify glass that has 2 lens that I can wear on my head hands free! Sounds really fruit cakey I know, but it opened up a whole new world for me. I can really see everything going on in my tank now that I couldn't see before! I could probably count the scales on my fish now. :rotfl: Anyway, I find that it comes in very handy when you really want to see something.

lol thanks i might need one of those LOL