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surface bugs??
I have set up a 20 gallon propagation tank about a month ago...
(PICS SOON) I have noticed some tiny insect body floating near my skimmer outlet..I didn't think anything of it I thought maybe some insects flew in and died.. I was cleaning the surface water when I had noticed the little bus where everywhere and seemed tobe attracted to the spotlight I had lit after my lights day/actinics where turned off.. Any one out there have/had these bugs?? They seem to float and skim on the surface really fast. Are they ok for my tank? |
Sounds like free swimming copepods (aka "pods"). You're fish will love them. Perfectly harmless.
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I think I have had the same thing. They look like little flies, right? Zipping about above the surface of the water and not in it? I don't know what they are either.
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yeah yeah like little flies...
But I think theyd all died!? I can see all of them 50-75 floating on the surface now.. |
i had a friend with the same thing a while back,first they looked like flys then spiders but i never saw them myself
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If they're all dead and the fish aren't eating them, pull them out.
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The little bugs are back and I noticed that they are larves on the glass and hatching after lights out!!
Are these ok?? I have no fish in the tank should I get one?? I just wanted a coral only tank. |
They are harmless.
Edit: I'd maybe concider trying a small mandarin in there. :) |
I would throw a mandarin or 2 in their, with that high a pod count you would never have to feed them!!!!
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