They lay eggs and reproduce easy. Before you put shrimp in throw a few tiger barbs in and dont feed them. they will decimate anything that moves in the tank
Where are all these critters coming from?
So my little thin white worms were eaten, but I dropped in shrimp pellets yesterday again, in order to keep the tank cycled, and I looked on my tank wall and there are copepods on the wall of the tank. A good amount of them, and I just did a water change two days ago too. Where on earth do they keep coming from?
I haven't added any plants in 3 weeks, but there are tiny little white dots, with a tiny tail and two little antennae just like the pictures. Is there anyway they were in the Eco Complete water when I bought the bag? I just don't get where they are coming from lol. I think these are SAFE, but there are tons of them :help
o I need to worry about these little things?
This tank has been getting 50% water changes, weekly, when the fish was in the tank I only fed once every other day 3 pieces of Koi food and that was it. For cycling I've just been adding 1-2 shrimp pellets and when they dissolve, I add in another.
I haven't added any plants in 3 weeks, but there are tiny little white dots, with a tiny tail and two little antennae just like the pictures. Is there anyway they were in the Eco Complete water when I bought the bag? I just don't get where they are coming from lol. I think these are SAFE, but there are tons of them :help
o I need to worry about these little things?This tank has been getting 50% water changes, weekly, when the fish was in the tank I only fed once every other day 3 pieces of Koi food and that was it. For cycling I've just been adding 1-2 shrimp pellets and when they dissolve, I add in another.
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You'll probably never get rid of all the critters. Fish will eat them down to a level where you can't see them, but they can lay eggs on plants and in the substrate too. That's how they survive cold weather, dry periods, etc. Copepods, daphnia, seed shrimp all do it. So do planaria and nematodes. I've come to accept them as a fact of life in shrimp tanks. But I'll wait until my shrimplets are big enough to not get eaten and put a few guppy or endler fry in the tanks for a few days and let them reduce the numbers. I kind of like having one or two tanks with a heavy population because it keeps a good live food supply going.
I'm watching the nematodes squiggle around in my new 5G jar right now, thinking how delicious my endlers will find them in a few days
I'm watching the nematodes squiggle around in my new 5G jar right now, thinking how delicious my endlers will find them in a few days
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