i know you may not think it is but i seriously believe it is and aphid that somehow found its way to your tank. they will eat your plants (i think this because i looked it up in a bug book i have for a stupid biology bug collection project.)
tiny hopping bugs (w/pic)
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ONe heck of a camera you got there. I cannot find anything about underwater aphids. Everything I found about aphids on pond plants had a cure of submessing the plant and drowning the aphids. Not sure what it is but my daughter and I agree that it's a cute little thing.
Have the fish shown no interest in eating them?
Have the fish shown no interest in eating them?
well the first thing i did was try to get rid of them but i didn't have very much success. I tried squirting them down into the water column for my fish to eat. I tried soaking them up in a paper towel. I tried scooping them up with my brine shrimp net. They just pop around everywhere on top of the water and they either escape my every move or they are just very water repellent..... When I was trying to submerge them i saw two very tiny sort of shiny things sinking in the water but my fish just spit them back out. They might not have been the bugs though, maybe baby snails that I knocked off one of the plants.
btw. for the pics I was using a Canon 10D and a Sigma 180 Macro lens. The first pic is a 100% crop.
btw. for the pics I was using a Canon 10D and a Sigma 180 Macro lens. The first pic is a 100% crop.
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I have these as well. They were congragating around my Pengium Pro-60 biowheel kit. They are about 1/10th the size of a small ant, if not smaller and they hop around on top of the water until they get to something they can hold onto like the aquarium side or a filter spout or something.... Definitly too small for fish to see or care about. They dont seem to harm anything so I've left mine.
Not an aphid but a springtail, and that is a very nice picture of for such a tiny subject.
And you if you do have a microscope have fun observing them because they ping off the scope objectives when they jump.
Tom
And you if you do have a microscope have fun observing them because they ping off the scope objectives when they jump.
Tom
Thanks Tom, I googled springtail and found some pictures that look very similar to what I've got here. It looks like people sell springtails as live food so I guess I won't be too worried about having them around in my tank.
Yup, that's a springtail and that's an awesome picture!
I love spring tails. They're pretty cool little critters. In the mountains here in Colorado, you can find those guys sitting in groups on the snow around little rivers and streams in the springtime. They jump around and look almost like snow that's blowing.
(Most species eat detritus, diatoms and algae ... )
I love spring tails. They're pretty cool little critters. In the mountains here in Colorado, you can find those guys sitting in groups on the snow around little rivers and streams in the springtime. They jump around and look almost like snow that's blowing.
(Most species eat detritus, diatoms and algae ... )
