super tiny white specks moving around in moss?

[supersudo]

ok, i just spotted one just now because it was moving around erratically... stopped in one place for a second.. then super quickly moved or jumped to another branch and ran super fast around the moss..

what the heck is it and is it something i should be worried about?

 

[gtu2004]

mine is dark, black-ish looking super tiny things. Are those snails?

 

[carlstreeter]

I just saw some running around one of my tanks as well. Not sure what they are, but mine don't seem to be hurting anything. Yet, at least.

 

[mellowvision]

probably daphnia or similar.

 

[supersudo]

I just saw some running around one of my tanks as well. Not sure what they are, but mine don't seem to be hurting anything. Yet, at least.

how the heck do they get in there in the first place?!?!

 

[blue2fyre]

The little white running things in my invert tank are seed shrimp. They are harmless.

 

[James0816]

I put out this post about something similar a few days ago.

I couldn't get a good visual of it with the naked eye other than as you described...a small white spec moving around pretty quickly. Using the macro lens on the camera, I was able to see it better.

 

[supersudo]

hmm.. i'm going to say they are cyclops' then.. dang copepods

 

[sushiray]

I had an army invasion at one time all over the glass interior swimming/scurrying real fast like speed demons. but at same time I had what I was told also had planaria, those squiggly white strands/worms floating around. so I thinks they be the babes of planaria waiting to grow up to swim around. thats what I thinks!

 

[Bio123]

Planaria are flat grey to brown worms, not squiggly white strands. I think you're referring to detritus worms. As for the white things, they ARE cyclops and seed shrimp. I breed them. :lol2: