Weird Microfauna Question

[Anonymous]

Perhaps it's possible to be too concientious, but since I have just received my live rock and my glass now has hundreds of tiny creatures all over it, I had a concern.

When you are cleaning the algae off the front of the tank, how hard is it on the copepods and the like? They probably are accustomed to hanging on pretty tightly, since they don't get blown around with the current in my tank. Am I killing dozens of them every time I use my algae magnet?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

Magnets can kill even larger critters!Once I had one fall onto my conch- and it took it out! Just be as careful as possible! There is no way that killing a few dozen 'pods is going to adversly affect a system! And it's unavoidable to 'run' some over now and then.

 

[Anonymous]

I would not worry about killing too many critters by cleaning your glass.

 

[Anonymous]

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Magnets can kill even larger critters!Once I had one fall onto my conch- and it took it out!

Get a floating magnet. The other magnets are so heavy they could easily kill something. The floating magnets are better too because they can go around the corners without you reaching in to change from one plane of glass to the next one

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Loeuy

 

[Anonymous]

I have a floating magnet. Works great. I just can't seem to go slow enough so that the white dots move out of the way...

 

[Anonymous]

For the most part,they will just get knocked down. The ones that get killed will get recycled.