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Old 11-03-2009, 06:40 AM   #1 (permalink)
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what are swimming around in my tank!


hey i have a 2.5 gal with 2 nerite snails and red cherry shrimp. and i have like 20+ little things swimming around.... at first i thought they are baby cherry shrimp because i saw a few of my shrimp pregnant...

but they dont look anything like these babies
http://www.planetinverts.com/red_che..._hatching.html

idk how to explain what they look, and i cant really take a picture of them with a camera. but they look like VERY VERY VERY tiny grains of rice?

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Old 11-03-2009, 06:53 AM   #2 (permalink)
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their swimming patterns look like the way how shrimp swim but they look nothing like shrimp! lol

best i could do with pictures

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Old 11-03-2009, 07:13 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Possibly seed shrimp. Hard to tell from the photos.
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Old 11-03-2009, 07:41 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Maybe daphnia? The pics are a little suspect, so it's hard to tell.
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Old 11-03-2009, 07:47 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Maybe some sort of copod? Basically in well-established tank little guys like these colonize but are no threat. Just means you need to either feed less or clean more.
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Reminds me of the Seed Shrimp (Ostracoda) I have in my tank. They are a little comical to watch swim in the water.
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I used to have little thingies like that in my tank. They all just died off for some reason, but my shrimp and pesky snails are all perfectly fine and prolific.
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