Of sorts... in the past two weeks hundreds and hundreds of itty-bitty
MTS have decided to leave the gravel and hang out on the walls of the
tank and even on the surface of the water. They are there all the time.
Any ideas what it might be?

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Sounds like they're getting organized. You might
want to lock you bedroom door at night ;-)

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Of sorts... in the past two weeks hundreds and hundreds of itty-bitty MTS
have decided to leave the gravel and hang out on the walls of the tank and
even on the surface of the water. They are there all the time. Any ideas
what it might be?

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Check your heater, possibly low oxygen.

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Of sorts... in the past two weeks hundreds and hundreds of itty-bitty
MTS have decided to leave the gravel and hang out on the walls of the
tank and even on the surface of the water. They are there all the time.
Any ideas what it might be?

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Happy'Cam'per wrote:
Check your heater, possibly low oxygen.

Temperature is a steady 80F and the tank is heavily planted with plenty
of surface turbulence. That's probably not it.

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|| Of sorts... in the past two weeks hundreds and hundreds of itty-bitty
|| MTS have decided to leave the gravel and hang out on the walls of the
|| tank and even on the surface of the water. They are there all the
|| time. Any ideas what it might be?
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Victor, I can say with great confidence, that I really don't know why... but
I do know that it happens every so often... I think it has something to do
with the birthing process, hatching, whatever... Seems that every 6 weeks or
so, I have the same kinda migration.... they're all smaller, newbies, front
back and both sides... 2 days later, they're in/on the substrate...

I'm almost inclined to say, they're hunting for food, being that mostly they
are in substrate, and maybe after a good vacuuming, they've found no food,
so up the glass they go.... seems reasonable...

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is that better??

I'm almost inclined to say, they're hunting for food, being that mostly
they
are in substrate, and maybe after a good vacuuming, they've found no food,
so up the glass they go.... seems reasonable...


Indeed....next stop is the fridge...be afraid....be very afraid!!!

I.

Iain Miller wrote:

I'm almost inclined to say, they're hunting for food, being that mostly

they

are in substrate, and maybe after a good vacuuming, they've found no food,
so up the glass they go.... seems reasonable...



Indeed....next stop is the fridge...be afraid....be very afraid!!!

I.



I've had this occasionally too, but it's been tied to filtration or heat
problems. Since you've ruled out the heat, are you sure your filter is
up to scratch? Low filter turnover (due to filter intake clogging) is a
sure-fire way to bring the MTS's out of the gravel and up the glass in
my tank, and the longer it continues the more and the higher they climb.
Even though your filter's doing a good surface ripple, has it clogged
and gone to bypass internally or something?

Doesn't seem food triggered in my tank (little gravel I can get to to
vacuum, too many plants LOL) since the gravel's full of whatever it is
they seem to munch (try not to think about that too hard given the gunk
that's in there).

Temp too high (29+C seems to provoke it) / O2 too low / sub-standard
filtration in my experience. Is yours tied to tank maint cycles (after
you've done filter maint, for example)?

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Velvet wrote:
problems. Since you've ruled out the heat, are you sure your filter is
up to scratch? Low filter turnover (due to filter intake clogging) is a

Should be. The pre-filter intake gets cleaned regularly, and since I
have good flow I doubt there's a clog inside the canister.

filtration in my experience. Is yours tied to tank maint cycles (after
you've done filter maint, for example)?

Nope, but it's diminished significantly lately. Perhaps it is a seasonal
thing like another poster suggested.

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Velvet wrote:
Doesn't seem food triggered in my tank (little gravel I can get to to
vacuum, too many plants LOL) since the gravel's full of whatever it is
they seem to munch (try not to think about that too hard given the gunk
that's in there).

Fry food will trigger the MTS to go up my glass, all concentrating where
the filter flow would make any food particles in the water hit the glass.
They don't seem to do it with normal flake food though.