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One other organism in my tank

Posted By: Pete <pcooke@rocketmail.com>
Date: Monday, 27 September 1999, at 1:24 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Strange white spots on Clowns (Disease?) (Anne Webel)

Hi,

Thanks for the help Anne. I did a ~40% water change on Saturday. I'll let you know if it helps. When I was vacuuming the gravel, I was reminded of something that might be important. Living in my gravel, there are some crustaceans. I'm not positive what they are. They're about 2mm long. Whenever I vacuum gravel, there are always a few dozen of them crawling around the bottom of the basin after I empty the dirty water out. We had experimented with live brine shrimp a few months ago, so I had always assumed that they had found their way to the gravel and started breeding. Saturday, I decid