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Tiny Life Forms-Big Worries?

April 26, 2017life tiny worries

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Tiny Life Forms-Big Worries?

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Hi again! I hope everything is fantastic on your end, and thank you ahead of time for helping me! (And thank you to Scott F. for helping me last time!). I have a question that might be hard to explain, I certainly can’t take a picture of my critters in question because they are *extremely* tiny and also they are so amassed on my tank glass that it’s virtually impossibly in some spots to tell one from the other. They are teeny, tiny blackish specks, sort of an elliptical shape and I’ll bet 100 of them could fit on the period at the end of this sentence, they are crazy-small. They move, so they’re not just algae specks and there are literally hundreds and hundreds *of millions* on the glass, they are multiplying at such an amazing rate, it’s chaos. I don’t think it makes any difference necessarily, but I never noticed them before I put the VHO lights on my tank. I’m relatively convinced that they aren’t harmful, they stay on the glass on patches of algae