[DudeonThaCouch]

So I was moving moss from my tank into a bowl to grow, and noticed a brown bug about 1 inch long very thin with what looked like a fish tail and 4 legs stuck on one of the dwarf sag leaves any ideas? I'm getting pictures and posting shortly

 

[DudeonThaCouch]

Is it a dragon fly? I miss counted the legs since I couldn't see them till I removed it but theres 6 and a < tail

 

[shrimpo]

Looks like dragonfly or some other larvae.

 

[NeonFlux]

Looks like a dragonfly nymph. Get it out before it gets big enough and attacks your fish.

 

[DudeonThaCouch]

Thanks guys I wonder how it got in there? It's a sealed glass top and I haven't even seen a dragon fly this year.

 

[treyLcham]

It probably came in as an egg on a plant Sent from my SPH-D700 using Tapatalk 2

 

[DudeonThaCouch]

hmm should I worry at all I have shrimp and otos in that tank with snails, the other if it has any I'd think my black ghost knife would eat.

 

[NeonFlux]

Yeah, just be on the look out. When they get bigger, they look fat, and oval.. I had some before no thanks to a daphnia crustacean package coming from a hobbyist's pond -_-. So I actually fed them to my large cichlids when they got big enough lol.. If you have some really big fish, they will love you for it. But I'd be careful though, they might be carrying something nasty in them, so eh iunno, it's up to you if you to feed them. I'd dry it out this time around and not risk it.. give them for the birds outside to eat, or let the ants do their thing. :icon_mrgr

 

[boredom.is.me]

Dragonfly larvae are some of the biggest freshwater hunters. I would remove them ASAP.

 

[Betta132]

That's a damselfly larva, I think. Slightly smaller than a dragonfly larva and therefore slightly less dangerous, but still bad.
You can put it in a jar and feed it bits of meat and shrimp culls... Neat to watch them develop.

 

[Covanellis]

Why does everyone think it's a dragonfly larvae? They look fat from the beginning, it's a damselfly larvae, and that's about as big as it gets. I would remove it as a precaution, but it will not generally attack anything.

 

[NeonFlux]

Well, because that's what everyone usually assumes when they all see something like that most of the time here.. I suppose it's not good to make guesses :/ when they are wrong or w/e? I mean we arent like terrestrial bug experts out there that know how to ID insects, you know? Big deal.. More importantly, either way both are pests anyhow in home aquariums and should be removed asap..