Thousands of barnacles
 

My 30 gallon tank contains thousands of tiny white barnacles. These are
mainly on the rocks but a substantial number are in my protein filter and in
the body my main Eheim filter. The protein filter venturi jet frequently
blocks with a barnacle.

Any advice on dealing with this?

Beemer

Thousands of barnacles
 

"Beemer" wrote in
. uk:

Any advice on dealing with this?

Clean them off and decrease the amount of food being put in the tank. The
fact that they are multiplying so quickly suggests there may be too much
plankton-like foods in the tank.

How do you feed your corals? Spot feeding with a syringe may allow you to
reduce the total amount you are feeding.

They may just be a type of spiraling calcious bristle worm and not a true
barnacle--I see these guys all the time in reef tanks. They carpet the back
of my nano-cube reef. Dealing with them is the same.

Thousands of barnacles
 

"dc" wrote in message
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| "Beemer" wrote in
| . uk:
|
| Any advice on dealing with this?
|
| Clean them off and decrease the amount of food being put in the tank. The
| fact that they are multiplying so quickly suggests there may be too much
| plankton-like foods in the tank.
|
| How do you feed your corals? Spot feeding with a syringe may allow you to
| reduce the total amount you are feeding.
|
| They may just be a type of spiraling calcious bristle worm and not a true
| barnacle--I see these guys all the time in reef tanks. They carpet the
back
| of my nano-cube reef. Dealing with them is the same.

Thanks,

Beemer