mysterious speckles in tank

[walah]

on closer inspection of my tank today i thought the outside glass on tank had water splash marks but then i realised that these tiny white speckles are in the tank and i just wondered if it was start of algae, they are tiny little feathery looking things (if this helps?!?) and there is millions of them?

 

[Waterloo Kid]

If the tank has only been running for a few weeks then you could be seeing small colonies of bacteria, the type you see in the filter housing. This is a pure guess though! If it is bacteria you could be nearing the end of the cycling stage of the tank.
Alternatively it could be a fungus of some type!

WK

 

[Kryten]

I would just put it down to bacteria as well. I would recommend that you get a magnetic algae scraper from the pet store, they only cost a few pounds. That should help to clean the glass very effectively, loosening the bacteria into the water where the filter can do its worst