There's something in strange my tank

acocacolagirl

acocacolagirl

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There are tiny, tiny (the size of air bubbles) white specks swimming around my tank.:dive2:
I turned the filter off and waited for the water to be still and free of air bubbles to see:look: if it was just air bubbles moving in a strange current. There deffinately seems to be something in there besides the fish I put in there. It is a 37 gallon tank with a rope fish, a handful of otos, and a mystery snail. I don't think I have added new fish since december, but something slowly killed off my 3 gouramis. Also, I don't feed live food any more. My ropefish is just as happy with dry and frozen so I haven't given live food since the end of Nov. Also have treated for ick several times as I thought that or velvet was killing off the other fish. I even did the salt and heat treatment. But something appears to like my tank conditions. Any ideas? Should I worry? Am I totally imagining all of this? :cool2:
 
I think some people call them water fleas ?
Small wite spots that swim or sometimes "zip" around ?

If thats what you have - they are harmless. Just one of the things that an established tank ends up with. Over time you collect quite a biodiversity.
 
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"water flea" is a good discription of what I am seeing. Hope it is nothing more!

Thanks!
 
hmmm....I change/vac 10-40% every 7 - 12 days
And my levels are what they should be

temp 81
ammonia 0
nitrite 0
nitrate 10 - 15
ph 7
 
I had them for a while as well untill my water conditions cleared up. I kept getting them when I had alot of Nitrite. Eventualy the filter seemed to get rid of them.
 
I think my 125 gallon has these right now, i was thinking they may have come in on the large amount of hornwart we bought from the LFS, is that possible?
 
Water Fleas = Daphnia

Swimming specks or dots in a tank are usually copepods, daphnia, or ostracods. They’re all collectively part of the aquatic zooplankton. And how the ‘specks’ move through the water can give you a clue to their identity. Daphnia and copepods move in jerky motions except that daphnia generally swim in an up and down motion while copepods move in all directions. Ostracods swim in a zippy out of control manner throughout the water column.

Everybody feel better now? :)

Tom
 
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