so what i did with my tank today was take all the water out bleach the tank take out the sand wash it and bleach the and heater and rinsed everything a long booty time so i dont get these things again
HELP!!!!! MAGGOTS!
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Yeah seriously why did you do that when everyone told you it was not a parasite and if anything your fish would eat them? If I bleached my tank every time I saw something moving that wasn't a fish I would have no fish at all. Tanks are full of stuff swimming around that eat the food the fish eat. As long as it's in the water and not attached to the fish for the most part it is fine.
HOLLY OVERKILL!!
All you had to do was either wait for the fish to eat them or them to hatch and fly away. I would think that you would lose more stock from scrubbing and bleaching everything and having to start cycling all over again.
As for getting them again...all it takes if for a mosquito to lay eggs again.
i had no stock... everything died... everything but my java moss everything else wiped dead... it was all shrimp every single one died not 1 lived...
lol
i add mosquito freshly hatched mosquito larvae to my tank for food, and you bleach it! lol
if anything in a few days they would have metamorphosized and transformed into adults, and you would have a few in house for a while, but that would be it.
just release some geckos in side er something.
lol
i add mosquito freshly hatched mosquito larvae to my tank for food, and you bleach it! lol
if anything in a few days they would have metamorphosized and transformed into adults, and you would have a few in house for a while, but that would be it.
just release some geckos in side er something.
lol
haha i had no idea what is was :/ lol but w.e i guess its over now... but idk how tho all my shrimp died.. tho so either way i thought i should clean the tank any way
from Wiki:
"Maggot is the common name of the larval phase of development in insects of the order Diptera (flies). Sometimes the word is used to denote the larval stage of any insects."
I do believe tho that the house fly Maggot(larvae) goes thru 3 instar phases before pre-pupal
the mosquito 4 instar phases prior to pupal.
Just an FYI(AKA food for thought)
"Maggot is the common name of the larval phase of development in insects of the order Diptera (flies). Sometimes the word is used to denote the larval stage of any insects."
I do believe tho that the house fly Maggot(larvae) goes thru 3 instar phases before pre-pupal
the mosquito 4 instar phases prior to pupal.
Just an FYI
(AKA food for thought)
