BangBangShrimp
New Member
BACKGROUND
I have a 20 gallon long with neocardina shrimp, two hillstream loaches, and one nerite snail (which disappeared). I left home for about 40 days, placed an automatic feeder on the tank and had my neighbor check on them. I came back to a crazy amount of black algae on all my plants which freaked me out, but I also left with 8 shrimp and came back to an army of about 50 so I figure the water parameters couldn't have gotten too bad. I have nasty city water, so I distill my water and add GH conditioner which has been working great for shrimp.
ISSUE
I recently noticed these three weird circle things in the picture (I circled them in yellow), I'm hoping somebody knows what they are? They feel hard on the outside and if 6 hours go by without checking the tank, I noticed they move positions by like 6 inches. I was hopeful they were loach eggs but the internet says loaches bury their eggs in the sand so now I'm paranoid it's something I don't want in the tank. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!
I have a 20 gallon long with neocardina shrimp, two hillstream loaches, and one nerite snail (which disappeared). I left home for about 40 days, placed an automatic feeder on the tank and had my neighbor check on them. I came back to a crazy amount of black algae on all my plants which freaked me out, but I also left with 8 shrimp and came back to an army of about 50 so I figure the water parameters couldn't have gotten too bad. I have nasty city water, so I distill my water and add GH conditioner which has been working great for shrimp.
ISSUE
I recently noticed these three weird circle things in the picture (I circled them in yellow), I'm hoping somebody knows what they are? They feel hard on the outside and if 6 hours go by without checking the tank, I noticed they move positions by like 6 inches. I was hopeful they were loach eggs but the internet says loaches bury their eggs in the sand so now I'm paranoid it's something I don't want in the tank. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!