daphnia

[revolutionhope]

i've found one of my tanks with a good number of small white things jiggling around on the glass, they seem to have two little antennae at the front,. i couldn't get a good picture but i believe they are daphnia. they are white in colour, they can swim but not very effectively, they're a few MM in size i guess.

is daphnia common? is there something else they could be? i think they're too big to be ostracoda...

i'll try to get a better pic or take a short video of them doing their jiggle on the glass :-) they happily feed alongside the shrimps, they are same size as a newborn neo i guess; some are a little bigger.

 

love n peace

 

will

[revolutionhope]

NVM they are ostracods, made a simple mistake.

[neo-2FX]

Was going to say that you are describing what I thought would be seed shrimp. I believe they're a good sign that you have clean water!

[neo-2FX]

They're everywhere in my tank. Doing better than the damn shrimp lol

[fishmosy]

Good old seed shrimp. Never saw them in all the years when I kept fish, now they often appear in my shrimp tanks.

[GotCrabs]

Never had Seed Shrimp, mind you, my tank is chock a block full of plants half the time I don't even se my normal Shrimp!

[Matuva]

Mines came with a pack of red cherries. I'm now used to see them, and their number have decreased whilst the number of cherries increase.