I have aquatic roaches!
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Detritus worms or blackworms, hard to tell without a microscope. They're harmless, actually eat your mulm/detritus, and are relished by many larger fish. After all, the first is an oligochaete, same as an earthworm.
Those "roaches" sound and look a lot like ostracods, haha. When you say they move like a roach, do you mean that they're kinda jerky like a flea? Have you ever seen daphnia movement - is it like that, but on the ground?
Ostracods are also harmless and another great food. Anything that'll eat daphnids would probably love them.
Those "roaches" sound and look a lot like ostracods, haha. When you say they move like a roach, do you mean that they're kinda jerky like a flea? Have you ever seen daphnia movement - is it like that, but on the ground?
Ostracods are also harmless and another great food. Anything that'll eat daphnids would probably love them.
James, your subject line totally messes with my head. 
Here's one of my favorite resources that you'll find helpful: What is that bug in my aquarium?
Scroll down that page for a very cute photo of a tiny shrimplet checking out an even tinier ostracod — and a description that will make you feel much better about the condition of your tank.
Here's one of my favorite resources that you'll find helpful: What is that bug in my aquarium?
Scroll down that page for a very cute photo of a tiny shrimplet checking out an even tinier ostracod — and a description that will make you feel much better about the condition of your tank.
James, your subject line totally messes with my head.
:rofl::laugh:
erv::lipssealedsmilie:Here's one of my favorite resources that you'll find helpful: What is that bug in my aquarium?
Scroll down that page for a very cute photo of a tiny shrimplet checking out an even tinier ostracod — and a description that will make you feel much better about the condition of your tank.
That's awesome info, H2Ogal!! James, methinks you don't really need to worry about extra vaccing. They're GOOD roaches! :grinyes:
*cough*habrosus!*cough*
Yeah...they were determined to be ostracods. They move around pretty fast in that shelled body of theirs. Weaving in and out of the substrate. Definately reminds me of TV shows where someone comes home, turns the light on and picks the pizza box up off the floor. All the roaches then scurry for cover.
Puffer food! thats what they are! little crunchy jellybeans of meaty goodness to a figure 8 puffer
(the puffer would not behave in that tank with any fish so you would have to move the critters daily to his tank as food)
crunch nom nom nom nom nom crunch nom nom nom
(the puffer would not behave in that tank with any fish so you would have to move the critters daily to his tank as food)
crunch nom nom nom nom nom crunch nom nom nom
