what are these

[itsme]

SORRY I DONT HAVE A CAMERA
but they look like a snail with out a shell or maybe a leech idk but they are all over the glass on my tank

 

[Reefergeorge]

SORRY I DONT HAVE A CAMERA
but they look like a snail with out a shell or maybe a leech idk but they are all over the glass on my tank

Just a guess but are they stomatella snails?

 

[returnofsid]

Would you describe them as looking like a small thumbnail? If so, they're a Stomatella Snail. Very friendly reef critters.

 

[itsme]

yea i guess
they are brown are are very small

 

[Planet Reef]

Here's a few pictures of Stomatella varia. http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=stomatella&gbv=2

Whenever you see the word "varia" as a species name, it's a shortcut in Latin referring to "various" types of species. That's why you can have different sizes and colors of Stomatella varia and they are all correct.

 

[itsme]

so they are good right

 

[itsme]

o and they look like this but alot darker brown thanks
http://www.frode.nl/zeebak/raamzwemmer.jpg

 

[Planet Reef]

Oh.....then it has no shell at all. (Stomatella have a shell that's darn near invisible).

What you have sounds like acoel flatworms. The white ones that only eat copepods are no big deal. The brown ones are photosynthetic and are a royal pain when their population gets too big as they will cover the corals and block light to them.

A search here on flatworms will yield many success stories on treating them so Hakunna Matatta (it means "No Worries").

 

[itsme]

ok so the conclsion is they are flat worms and they are bad

thanks for answering my dumb ?s

 

[itsme]

http://www.liveaquaria.com/general/general.cfm?general_pagesid=362
yep they are rust brown flat worms
now to get them out

 

[Planet Reef]

thanks for answering my dumb ?s

I haven't figured out yet why your question is dumb. Near as I can tell, you're just asking for help. Doing ID's is hard. Somtimes, ya have to work your way down and the first guess isn't always right.

 

[itsme]

ok do you know how to get rid of them

 

[Planet Reef]

Siphoning them out will yield good results. If you have a LOT of them, you might need to buy Salifert Flatworm Exit.

 

[itsme]

yea i siphoned a ton out to day with my old air line tubing