Hydra are actually animals, that’s why fenbendazole works on them, they’re relatives of marine “jellyfish”, but live fixed to something, like a carnivorous plant! Fascinating but deadly to tiny animals!
Jellies have a life stage where they're fixed to the ground. Jellyfish lays an egg, egg hatches into a free-swimming larva, the larva lands on a surface and grows into a polyp. The polyp stage can divide itself to make more polyps or produce jellyfish (medusa stage.) The "immortal jelly" is able to return to that polyp stage when the medusa starts to die. Imagine if you died and your body turned into a baby. Or like, if humans grew on trees and turned into trees when they died.
You probably get sick of questions but your video was so informative that I feel you're the expert! I have a successful 1 yr old fluval tank with a mature white betta, a huge mystery snail and dozens of crimson shrimp. Everyone lives together in harmony, great water parameters. Recently I have a bloom of 100s of swimming microscopic white dots, tooooo small to see their shape. Once they land on the betta they actually look tan. He wiggles and off they fall so I know they're not attaching to him. They cling to the walls of the tank when not swimming. I'm a newby 65 yr old tank owner who is clueless!
Depending how they move, either seed shrimp or daphnia I would think. There is a thing called fish lice as well, but they tend to be much smaller. I would look up the swimming patterns and see, daphnia are very jumpy where seed shrimp move more normally.
I’ve been searching and searching for content on this. This was the most informative video I’ve found. You are a WONDER for the aquarium keeping hobby. BIG UPS TO YOU 🙌🏼
Been trying to figure out the ostracods. I knew about daphnia and copepods and kept thinking it was either one. I have TONS of ostracods in my shrimp tank swimming around everywhere. It's a thriving tank for sure.
Not alot out there on this topic..this was really informative. I found a couple scuds in my shrimp tank so I catch them when see them to feed to my betta.
Thank you!! I have been looking and looking for good info for ages on how to ID the microfauna in my tanks, and this is the best source of info I have found. Very good video.
Thanks! I am new to everything aquarium and was worried about these tiny round things. But thanks to ur vid i know theyre either seed shrimp or daphnia. So nothing to worry about yay ^_^
I just randomly stumbled on this 2 year old video and I'm wondering how I haven't seen your content before now and how you don't have more subscribers because this was really informative and well put together. I chuckled at the channel name too lol. Subscribed and I hope to see your channel grow!
We are all slaves to the algorithm. The system pushes larger channels that get more views and if you click those, it will continue to do that until you stop. There are thousands of channels in a similar situation to me, breaking 100k subs seems more like luck these days than anything. happy to have you here, hope you like the variety of content!
Dude I'm so glad you made this video I couldn't find anything more informational and I'm very happy to see that what I'm seeing in my shrimp tank is safe for them and I feel so much better they just came out of nowhere and I was so worried but now I feel great about them haha 😄
Fantastic list! In the snail category, I would add the Malaysian trumpet snails watching this in 2022 new sub and thank you for the work you put into these informative and enjoyable videos 🙂👍🏻
I love scuds, they are entertaining little battle bugs. I bought some thinking I’d feed them to fish, but ended up setting them up a tiny tank to watch their antics.
Hydra are actually related to jellyfish. This was a very cool video! Thanks for all the info. I am a Sea Monkey person personally but I love all shrimp.
I fed my fish daphnia and something was introduced. I figured out it was an ostracod/seed shrimp and they bred a lot! Also, when I bought some fish, snails were with them but they were not much harm since I have a lot of algae in the tank and my friend has a puffer so I catch some snails and give them to him for his puffer
Nice video :) I'm about to get a vevor digital microscope to figure out what little critters are in my tanks. I may post pictures of them later so I can get help identifying them.
4:36 from my personal experience: outside the larval stage where they're all just dots, just look at the way they move. Seed shrimp move like they have a tiny motor, it's a very even speed. They like to zoom along the floor or surfaces like a roomba and are strongly attracted to light. Copepods move in bursts, like they have low fps. Try to get them with a pipette and they just zip away.
I was making salt water nano tanks for dwarf seahorses in the 1970s. There was a mini jellyfish that would settle and spread tiny tentacles that grew a bud that bloomed into another tiny jellyfish that swam around a few days before it continued to process to take over the tank. I could manage it but never got rid of all of it. I have Crystal Red, Blue Velvet and Red Cherry shrimp and have learned the value of an isolation tank for all new plants, at least.
Along with some seed shrimp I have swarms of very tiny white critters that form active clouds at the bottom of my tank, especially the end where the sunlight from the window hits it? Then I have various groups of other clear/ white swirling critters that tend to gather in separate groups of multiple critters at the surface? Any thoughts will help.
I am a new tank owner with a couple shrimp. I noticed clear worms sliding on the aquarium glass. I was immediately thinking planaria. But they also float through the water and wiggle? Should i be worried
I had noticed a little white dot appearing to be hopping around on my substrate. I couldn’t make out any features to identify it, but my mind is at rest knowing that most bug type microfauna are harmless to my fish
Thank you so much for making this video, I recently found two a pest snail and I think a rabbit snail, a week apart in the water supply in my home, I don't know much but learned from Google/ TH-cam and placed both in a glass container, few days later the pest snail gave birth to like 8 baby pest snails and today I found some small white life forms floating in the water. I guess they look like ostrecods but I'm not sure really and now I don't know how to clean the glass container.
You found them IN YOUR WATER SUPPLY?! That is... odd. Some pest snails, pond and bladder I believe, can reproduce asexually so it's better to remove and destroy lol. The little life form might be a Seed Shrimp, totally harmless.
@@BobMossNanoTanks oh that's interesting, again thanks alot 😊 but I don't want them to die now. And yes it is odd actually I'm from Karachi, Pakistan and am currently receiving tap water sup from the water reservoirs of the Indus River so I'm guessing that's how they ended up all the way from the river to the water bucket of my washroom 😅.
Manual removal is the best option but some chemical options can be used. They are similar to shrimp so things with copper in it will do damage. Make sure you run carbon after the treatments to make the tank shrimp safe again, though. I don't really recommend it.
You might need one of those little things that are similar to teleprompters but smaller and for home video productions that reflects what’s on a regular piece of paper onto a glass but makes the text a lot bigger on the screen you read from to make the words a bit easier to see at a small distance to reduce the frustration associated with script memorization not going perfectly, if you can look at the script without getting up and down every time the words aren’t where you left them in your brain it might be less frustrating. I also have difficulty with remembering what I was going to say and it’s always really frustrating for me when the words go missing especially if I can’t find a synonym that works to use for what I was trying to say to explain myself differently, so anything that helps to make remembering things easier is usually welcome for me, I hope I am not giving bad impression, my intention is to be helpful and make the process of filming more enjoyable because I like your video and hope you enjoy making the video. I recently got a little package of rotifer and moina eggs to add to my betta and shrimp tank and I was wondering what the little tiny mini inchworms were 🪱 they swim in a very squiggly motion, I guess they probably aren’t a problem besides that they seem to be eating some of the bloodworms I was trying to feed the my partiality sighted shiny scale Betta who has difficulty finding any floating food, so I probably shouldn’t worry about it too much and just gravel vac his feeding area more thoroughly every few days or get a piece of slate for his feeding area so that the food doesn’t actually touch the gravel at all. But I should probably treat the tank for the squiggly worm I saw stuck on my betta’s fin though, I hope the treatment is okay for the rotifer and moina I just added and the other things in my tank and that it doesn’t harm any future snails I plan to get if it sticks to the substrate or algae and ends up in the food web. I’m probably just worrying too much about everything today.
That's a great suggestion. I've thought of it before, the easy solution is a phone app but I use my phone for the filming. I would either need to get a standalone device for a teleprompter or get a proper camera and both are just a little out of budget currently :(
Found out today I have some kind of worms inside my fish tanks makes me don't ever wanna dip my hand into my tanks. I can't tell the difference if it's planaria, rhabdocoela flatworm or something else since they're really small but I notice them crawling across the glass whenever I turn off the lights then disappear once I turn on the lights.
Thanks! Just started our tank and so far only have plants. But I discovered a little bug. Turns out it's a Scud! We wanted to make this a shrimp tank with a single beta in there. Guess we need to get rid of this guy before we get any shrimp.
Do ostracods feed on fish fries? i can barely see their features as they are too small but I can tell that they feeding on the infertile eggs, just too worried they feed on my fries since they haven't started swimming freely.
i came across this video while trying to figure out what these tiny moving dots in my shrimp tank are. From this vid I'm going to assume they are seed shrimp or copepods or smth like that. Do u think it could be these?
I only have one Betta and a nerite snail together in a tank and this morning I saw little opaque white things slowly moving on the glass. What could that be? I cleaned them off with a glass cleaning sponge. I want to make sure it's nothing harmful for my betta. I've looked at all the different worms and none seem to describe what I saw.
Great blanket coverage of the smaller and smallest macrofauna in aquariums. One fallacy is the small snail group. They literally cannot eat plants. What most people think they see is actually a plant part that is in a state of necrosis or dying. This happens from either nutrition deficiencies, unseeable outer damages, or just age. These snails mouth parts are too soft for doing any harm to healthy plant tissues. They cant even eat certain algaes....of which the bigger snails can be good at.
I have little brownish/red specks jumping around the top of my water in my 40G tank. I just added 36 ghost shrimp like two weeks ago and I have no idea what these little bugs are?
@@BobMossNanoTanks I hope so, I did lose a ram recently and one black neon but the ram had weak genetics, my other rams significantly outgrew him in the same time period and he always had a wrecked tail that never recovered while I had him (3-4) months and he finally succumbed. The black neon I have no idea how he died. I’m assuming they’re springtails and I’ve seen some clear ish looking ones too but it’s so hard to differentiate when you can’t tell they’re shape or anything.
@@shanejones-lv4yl can you get close to them with your phone camera? sometimes a lucky still image is all we need lol. sorry to hear about your losses, that sucks my friend :( but things will turn around!!
omgoodness thank you so much for posting this. i kept seeing limpets in my tank and i was worried i was doing something wrong. i believe in snails as well and i think they came in with some live plants i recently purchased. thanks for calming my anxiety about them!!
I found detritus worms and am ok with it, cos the minute I saw it a neon green rasbora eat it lol I'd love to know more about algea. I successfully treated against cyanobacteria, and now I have beard algea 🤦🏻♂️ I reduced the lighting, and I'm going to reduce it some more, and I'm going to feed less too. I'm doing around 30% water changes around once or twice a week, cleaning filters, glass, siphoning as much mulm of the bottom as I can and picking as much algea as I can... any other suggestions from you or anyone else would be great. Thx
I would try some hydrogen peroxide to kill algae. you can spot treat with a pipette or even just lightly dose the entire tank every now and then. it's a great little trick to keep your tanks clean!
@@BobMossNanoTanks Hey Bob, thanks for your reply, in a 50lt tank how much hydrogen peroxide would you recommend? My hydrogen P is 2%. I have several fish and 3 amano shrimp in there.
Hi I used to have a bunch of aquariums I had to stop doing that because I had no idea what types of dangers were in them can you please tell me what actual anything that goes into a freshwater aquarium could be hazardous to humans if handled as far as parasites go I would really appreciate it thank you so much
I think the only thing to really worry about is infections from the bacteria in the water. If it enters an open wound or you consume it, there is a small chance you develop a slight infection but unless immunocompromised there isn't really a high risk to anyone. There are some worms / leeches that might latch onto you but they generally be small and harmless. I think the worst thing you can get is a rare form of TB but I really wouldn't worry about that stuff at all.
First off...LOVE THE INTRO...and I seen one of these bugs in my little Bamboo Cube. It was black and just bounced from place to place, almost like it had a cyclops head on two ends.I didn't see you mention it.
had the light off in my small 10L nursery/quarantine for about a week since I sent some guppies to their forever home. turned the light back on today to make some prep for new assassins coming in and there are thousands of tiny tiny white worms all over the glass. so very very small but can be seen to move. not a clue what they are but they are everywhere. any help would be appreciated. are these very young detritus worms? no plants in the tank and I have nothing from the wild (all my plants are store bought in sealed containers) in my main so can't be planaria surely.
I'm leaning towards detritus worms or rhabdocoela. Both harmless and usually kept in check by the fish population. It would make sense for them to be more noticeable after the fish are gone
@@BobMossNanoTanks oh it's been a fascinating couple of days watching this tank. after my comment I seeded the tank with a few juvenile pond snails just to see what would happen. after 2 or 3 days I was seeing baby pond snails floating about the water and crawling along the glass and the worms were starting to decrease in number. the pond snail babbies were eating the worms. saw it with my own peepers crawling around the glass like Pac-Man eating all the dots. was cool to see.
I'd have to see a picture to know for sure. In the water or on the surface? You could try peroxide treatments? Lowering the amount you feed is usually good enough to limit pest populations though.
I keep a 55 gal freshwater tank and I was so worried to see detritus worms (small & white and wiggling swimming) and what I think are planarian based on movement. I tried to research the risk of them on my fish and my own health when cleaning… but I note you have them listed under non-beneficial. I don’t keep shrimp, and I lightly vacuum-gravel 1x a week to control the population. Would you recommend treating the tank to eliminate them? Or is it not such a big deal? I know planarian can excrete toxins but I don’t think I have enough, and I clean often enough, to avoid toxic volumes.
Hey Bob Moss, did you have any tips for removing scuds in a tank? I currently have been cycling mine and added java moss and floater plants and noticed one that I immediately took out but recently found another one and I'm paranoid lol Should I restart or is there a good way to remove them?
if they are reproducing it may be impossible to fully remove them. you can buy scud traps IIRC but if they are a continuous issue, you may have to restart the tank
The Microworm (Panagrellus redivivus) that was and is widely cultured on Baker's Yeast inoculated cereal based media as baby fish food, long before Vinegar Eels were widely cultured for this purpose is also a nematode. Tubifex, Blackworms (Lumbriculus), and Whiteworms (Enchytraeus) are also annelid worms. Some species of Planaria in the family Dugesiidae have two pigmented eyes that bear an amusing resemblance to cartoon Human cockeyes (Dugesia spp., Cura spp., etc.).
There are some flat worms you should mention that are harmless. I think this is important because people run out and treat their tanks because they saw a flat worm. Rhabdocoela.
I recently caught a leech in my 29 tall. After removing it and doing some redecorating I noticed a group of small black egg like things on my driftwood any ideas?
Tbh thankyou so much bro that taught me a lot,bro I love that bob ross in the tank and 😂😂😂 yeah all around great video/any experience with black piranha?
Thank you so much. I wouldn't consider the horsehair worm "common" among the micro fauna, but it can definitely be a problem. Some dewormer like fenbendazole should take care of it!
@@BobMossNanoTanks, you are most welcome! So they aren't common, hmm. Would you do me a favor and take a look at this? I started an ecosphere 2 weeks ago from my local lake in Texas. Is this a horsehair worm? Also at 1:24 is another "alien" worm I can't figure out. th-cam.com/video/HUiL-VCXJ08/w-d-xo.html
@@BobMossNanoTanks Thanks! Now what about the other one? I just took a new video of it since I found it again, it's one hungry strong critter. It's the tail end that's flower shaped...it kinda walks on it: th-cam.com/video/_cAn7WuGfiM/w-d-xo.html
Hydra are actually animals, that’s why fenbendazole works on them, they’re relatives of marine “jellyfish”, but live fixed to something, like a carnivorous plant! Fascinating but deadly to tiny animals!
I've actually made a newer video addressing this. You're not the first to point out my mistake haha
Jellies have a life stage where they're fixed to the ground. Jellyfish lays an egg, egg hatches into a free-swimming larva, the larva lands on a surface and grows into a polyp. The polyp stage can divide itself to make more polyps or produce jellyfish (medusa stage.)
The "immortal jelly" is able to return to that polyp stage when the medusa starts to die.
Imagine if you died and your body turned into a baby.
Or like, if humans grew on trees and turned into trees when they died.
nicely done! Biodiversity of microfauna is the foundation of a healthy aquarium.
You probably get sick of questions but your video was so informative that I feel you're the expert! I have a successful 1 yr old fluval tank with a mature white betta, a huge mystery snail and dozens of crimson shrimp. Everyone lives together in harmony, great water parameters. Recently I have a bloom of 100s of swimming microscopic white dots, tooooo small to see their shape. Once they land on the betta they actually look tan. He wiggles and off they fall so I know they're not attaching to him. They cling to the walls of the tank when not swimming. I'm a newby 65 yr old tank owner who is clueless!
Depending how they move, either seed shrimp or daphnia I would think. There is a thing called fish lice as well, but they tend to be much smaller. I would look up the swimming patterns and see, daphnia are very jumpy where seed shrimp move more normally.
I’ve been searching and searching for content on this.
This was the most informative video I’ve found. You are a WONDER for the aquarium keeping hobby.
BIG UPS TO YOU 🙌🏼
Wow, thank you so much! That means a lot!
If you like the content, make sure to share it with your friends ;)
@@BobMossNanoTanks hydras are not plants.
Been trying to figure out the ostracods. I knew about daphnia and copepods and kept thinking it was either one. I have TONS of ostracods in my shrimp tank swimming around everywhere. It's a thriving tank for sure.
They're a great way to tell if the aquarium is truly ready for shrimp or fish. Plus side, fish will eat them as a snack lol
Not alot out there on this topic..this was really informative. I found a couple scuds in my shrimp tank so I catch them when see them to feed to my betta.
Thanks man, means a lot! These types of videos are a little more high effort, so it's nice when people like them haha.
@@BobMossNanoTanksThis is the first video of yours I saw and I do indeed like it.
Thank you kindly for the information on all these critters. Greatly appreciated.
My pleasure! Thank you so much for watching and for the nice comment!
Extremely informative video, literally have always witnessed these creatures and wondered about them.
LOve Ur WoRk !!!!
Thank you very much!
Interesting video Didn’t realize there were so many different things that could be living in an aquarium.
I'm pretty sure I missed some of the more exotic things, too. This is just the "basics" list haha.
Thank you!! I have been looking and looking for good info for ages on how to ID the microfauna in my tanks, and this is the best source of info I have found. Very good video.
Happy to help! Be sure to check out part 2 for more info!
Thank you so so much.. Just in time too.. Doing my research on the little worms i have in my tank
Glad I could help! Thanks for watching!
Thanks! I am new to everything aquarium and was worried about these tiny round things. But thanks to ur vid i know theyre either seed shrimp or daphnia. So nothing to worry about yay ^_^
Great video. Very relaxing to watch
Glad you enjoyed it!
I just randomly stumbled on this 2 year old video and I'm wondering how I haven't seen your content before now and how you don't have more subscribers because this was really informative and well put together. I chuckled at the channel name too lol. Subscribed and I hope to see your channel grow!
We are all slaves to the algorithm. The system pushes larger channels that get more views and if you click those, it will continue to do that until you stop. There are thousands of channels in a similar situation to me, breaking 100k subs seems more like luck these days than anything.
happy to have you here, hope you like the variety of content!
Great reference video……just found detritus worms in new tank…….really helpful run through of microfauna. TQ 😄
Glad you liked it! Thanks so much for the nice comment!
Awesome that was refreshing to see a nice breakdown like that!
Dude I'm so glad you made this video I couldn't find anything more informational and I'm very happy to see that what I'm seeing in my shrimp tank is safe for them and I feel so much better they just came out of nowhere and I was so worried but now I feel great about them haha 😄
Happy I could help! I also have a part two with some creepier microfauna. Thanks so much for watching :)
This is informative Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed! Make sure to check out my other videos for more great info :)
Fantastic list! In the snail category, I would add the Malaysian trumpet snails watching this in 2022 new sub and thank you for the work you put into these informative and enjoyable videos 🙂👍🏻
Thank you so much! I believe I added the MTS in part 2, link in the description :P Glad you enjoy the content!
I love scuds, they are entertaining little battle bugs. I bought some thinking I’d feed them to fish, but ended up setting them up a tiny tank to watch their antics.
i love to watch this video every couple weeks it is one of my favs
Wow that's awesome! There is also a part two if you hadn't seen that one
Hydra are actually related to jellyfish. This was a very cool video! Thanks for all the info. I am a Sea Monkey person personally but I love all shrimp.
Lol ya unfortunately I misspoke in my most viewed video haha. I corrected myself in a later video but I don't think many watched it :P
Lots of great information thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching! Be sure to check out part 2!
Wow 😮 l watch this over and over
Thanks so much! Glad I could entertain haha
Absolutely loved this video!
thank you so much! be sure to check out my back log of vids :)
This was excellent. By far the best video I have found on this subject. Thanks
Wow, thank you! That means a lot!
That is an awesome, awesome video. So informative, thank you. Bookmarking this.
Thanks so much! I have a part two as well covering some more uncommon types if you're interested in this stuff.
Great overview. I was thinking of getting shrimp for the first time and trying to figure out what to add to my aquarium.
Very straightforward and helpful. Thanks so much.
thank you for watching! glad you liked it!
What a wealth of info! Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching and the nice comment!
Great info...! Thanks for sharing... Keep up your awesomeness...!
great video!! not too many people talk about this topic!!
Thank you so much! That's why I originally made it tbh :)
What was the first ones in the first tank you see in the vid there like teensy while slugs
awesome work! thank you
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Thanks so much!
Loved the intro so much I subbed :)
Wow thank you! I guess I need some better cold opens to get more subs haha
Great video, great explanation, this is exact infos what i’ve looking for!
Happy to help! Be sure to check out part 2 for more types of microfauna
how can I get seed shrimps??
They are actually in your tap water. If you want more of them, overfeed for awhile and they should appear. Fish will eat them, though.
@@BobMossNanoTanks thank you!
i got my first ramhons horns snail and love it! have a bunch of pest snails but was excited when one looked different. tanks are amazing
i love all snails, i have to think that people that hate snails just haven't been around the hobby long enough to understand their benefits.
I fed my fish daphnia and something was introduced. I figured out it was an ostracod/seed shrimp and they bred a lot!
Also, when I bought some fish, snails were with them but they were not much harm since I have a lot of algae in the tank and my friend has a puffer so I catch some snails and give them to him for his puffer
ya seed shrimp can go pretty nuts under the right conditions. I have millions!
This was an awesome video. Thank you very much for sharing.
Thank you so much for watching! Glad you liked it!
Excellent detail
Thank you very much
Thank you, beginning FF Tanker.
Welcome to the hobby!
Nice video :)
I'm about to get a vevor digital microscope to figure out what little critters are in my tanks. I may post pictures of them later so I can get help identifying them.
the intro to this is hands down the greatest haha
thank you! I try to have some fun lol
Wow watching many videos and trying to figure out what was in my pond and you were the first with the answer, Isopods. great job.
That's awesome to hear. Happy to help!
I got some moss from a local pond and added it to a small tank and now have some brownish worms hiding in the moss? Safe or dump it out
Thank you for the great info 🙂!
thanks for checking out my little channel!
Great video!
Thanks so much for watching!
4:36 from my personal experience: outside the larval stage where they're all just dots, just look at the way they move. Seed shrimp move like they have a tiny motor, it's a very even speed. They like to zoom along the floor or surfaces like a roomba and are strongly attracted to light. Copepods move in bursts, like they have low fps. Try to get them with a pipette and they just zip away.
so helpful!
Glad I could be of help!
Great summary. 🤙
thanks so much!
I was making salt water nano tanks for dwarf seahorses in the 1970s. There was a mini jellyfish that would settle and spread tiny tentacles that grew a bud that bloomed into another tiny jellyfish that swam around a few days before it continued to process to take over the tank.
I could manage it but never got rid of all of it.
I have Crystal Red, Blue Velvet and Red Cherry shrimp and have learned the value of an isolation tank for all new plants, at least.
Whoa that's kind of crazy. Would have sucked to have happened but also been kind of cool to see
Along with some seed shrimp I have swarms of very tiny white critters that form active clouds at the bottom of my tank, especially the end where the sunlight from the window hits it? Then I have various groups of other clear/ white swirling critters that tend to gather in separate groups of multiple critters at the surface? Any thoughts will help.
Is the cloud from the number of critters or are they kicking up your substrate?
excellent video!!
thank yoouu!!! be sure to check out part 2!
Super Video! Vielen Danke dafür 👍
Thanks so much!
I am a new tank owner with a couple shrimp. I noticed clear worms sliding on the aquarium glass. I was immediately thinking planaria. But they also float through the water and wiggle? Should i be worried
Sounds like detritus worms to me, which are nothing to worry about
Very useful video and interesting topic!
thank you very much
Great info, thanks
My pleasure!
If it’s wiggling on your fish it’s bad, but other wrigglers are fine. Thank you for sharing your research.
Thanks so much :)
The weird thing, if you let your detritus worms get really big, I swear they look like sperm lol
@@BobMossNanoTanks lol
I had noticed a little white dot appearing to be hopping around on my substrate. I couldn’t make out any features to identify it, but my mind is at rest knowing that most bug type microfauna are harmless to my fish
Your fish will probably have it for lunch haha
great content
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for making this video, I recently found two a pest snail and I think a rabbit snail, a week apart in the water supply in my home, I don't know much but learned from Google/ TH-cam and placed both in a glass container, few days later the pest snail gave birth to like 8 baby pest snails and today I found some small white life forms floating in the water. I guess they look like ostrecods but I'm not sure really and now I don't know how to clean the glass container.
You found them IN YOUR WATER SUPPLY?! That is... odd.
Some pest snails, pond and bladder I believe, can reproduce asexually so it's better to remove and destroy lol.
The little life form might be a Seed Shrimp, totally harmless.
@@BobMossNanoTanks oh that's interesting, again thanks alot 😊 but I don't want them to die now. And yes it is odd actually I'm from Karachi, Pakistan and am currently receiving tap water sup from the water reservoirs of the Indus River so I'm guessing that's how they ended up all the way from the river to the water bucket of my washroom 😅.
@@israaahtesham5041 Whoa that's nuts!
@@BobMossNanoTanks ikr 😅 btw I found another one today It's a pest snail
great video!!!
Thank you so much!
Thank you
No no, thank YOU!
How do you treat a tank with scuds? You remove the shrimps and then?
Manual removal is the best option but some chemical options can be used. They are similar to shrimp so things with copper in it will do damage. Make sure you run carbon after the treatments to make the tank shrimp safe again, though. I don't really recommend it.
Great content im subscribed
Thanks so much! Be sure to check out part 2.
@@BobMossNanoTanks I sure will. Hope you check out my tanks it would mean a lot. Thanks and blessings
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i guess it is pretty off topic but does anyone know a good website to watch newly released tv shows online ?
@Harlem Omari Flixportal :D
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Hi, I see tiny worms in my aquarium, they have a black head, and the rest of there body is is a bit orange ish
Any clue whay they are?
You might need one of those little things that are similar to teleprompters but smaller and for home video productions that reflects what’s on a regular piece of paper onto a glass but makes the text a lot bigger on the screen you read from to make the words a bit easier to see at a small distance to reduce the frustration associated with script memorization not going perfectly, if you can look at the script without getting up and down every time the words aren’t where you left them in your brain it might be less frustrating. I also have difficulty with remembering what I was going to say and it’s always really frustrating for me when the words go missing especially if I can’t find a synonym that works to use for what I was trying to say to explain myself differently, so anything that helps to make remembering things easier is usually welcome for me, I hope I am not giving bad impression, my intention is to be helpful and make the process of filming more enjoyable because I like your video and hope you enjoy making the video. I recently got a little package of rotifer and moina eggs to add to my betta and shrimp tank and I was wondering what the little tiny mini inchworms were 🪱 they swim in a very squiggly motion, I guess they probably aren’t a problem besides that they seem to be eating some of the bloodworms I was trying to feed the my partiality sighted shiny scale Betta who has difficulty finding any floating food, so I probably shouldn’t worry about it too much and just gravel vac his feeding area more thoroughly every few days or get a piece of slate for his feeding area so that the food doesn’t actually touch the gravel at all. But I should probably treat the tank for the squiggly worm I saw stuck on my betta’s fin though, I hope the treatment is okay for the rotifer and moina I just added and the other things in my tank and that it doesn’t harm any future snails I plan to get if it sticks to the substrate or algae and ends up in the food web. I’m probably just worrying too much about everything today.
That's a great suggestion. I've thought of it before, the easy solution is a phone app but I use my phone for the filming. I would either need to get a standalone device for a teleprompter or get a proper camera and both are just a little out of budget currently :(
Found out today I have some kind of worms inside my fish tanks makes me don't ever wanna dip my hand into my tanks. I can't tell the difference if it's planaria, rhabdocoela flatworm or something else since they're really small but I notice them crawling across the glass whenever I turn off the lights then disappear once I turn on the lights.
probably either Rhabdocoela or detritus worms. planaria is pretty obvious with the triangle head tbh.
Thanks! Just started our tank and so far only have plants. But I discovered a little bug. Turns out it's a Scud! We wanted to make this a shrimp tank with a single beta in there. Guess we need to get rid of this guy before we get any shrimp.
Glad I could help! The betta might actually eat it lol.
Thankx
Do ostracods feed on fish fries? i can barely see their features as they are too small but I can tell that they feeding on the infertile eggs, just too worried they feed on my fries since they haven't started swimming freely.
They might, if they can catch them. I haven't seen any proof of it happening but I can imagine it does.
i came across this video while trying to figure out what these tiny moving dots in my shrimp tank are. From this vid I'm going to assume they are seed shrimp or copepods or smth like that. Do u think it could be these?
Seed shrimp is likely. Perhaps daphnia? With no predators in a shrimp tank, they tend to have higher populations than you would see in a fish tank.
I only have one Betta and a nerite snail together in a tank and this morning I saw little opaque white things slowly moving on the glass. What could that be? I cleaned them off with a glass cleaning sponge. I want to make sure it's nothing harmful for my betta. I've looked at all the different worms and none seem to describe what I saw.
Will certain fish eat and kill planeria?
You bet! Guppies and tetras are great for that
Hey bro one question 🙋♂️
How I kill the scuds in my aquarium ? They come in plants now they destroy all my plants , help !!!
Great blanket coverage of the smaller and smallest macrofauna in aquariums. One fallacy is the small snail group. They literally cannot eat plants. What most people think they see is actually a plant part that is in a state of necrosis or dying. This happens from either nutrition deficiencies, unseeable outer damages, or just age. These snails mouth parts are too soft for doing any harm to healthy plant tissues. They cant even eat certain algaes....of which the bigger snails can be good at.
I have little brownish/red specks jumping around the top of my water in my 40G tank. I just added 36 ghost shrimp like two weeks ago and I have no idea what these little bugs are?
Are they springtails? I think I cover them in my Part Two!
@@BobMossNanoTanks I hope so, I did lose a ram recently and one black neon but the ram had weak genetics, my other rams significantly outgrew him in the same time period and he always had a wrecked tail that never recovered while I had him (3-4) months and he finally succumbed. The black neon I have no idea how he died. I’m assuming they’re springtails and I’ve seen some clear ish looking ones too but it’s so hard to differentiate when you can’t tell they’re shape or anything.
@@shanejones-lv4yl can you get close to them with your phone camera? sometimes a lucky still image is all we need lol. sorry to hear about your losses, that sucks my friend :( but things will turn around!!
omgoodness thank you so much for posting this. i kept seeing limpets in my tank and i was worried i was doing something wrong. i believe in snails as well and i think they came in with some live plants i recently purchased. thanks for calming my anxiety about them!!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed the video!
How do I get these organizms?
Where can I find them?
a lot of them live in tap water tbh. overfeed your tank for a little bit and you should see them start to appear more lol
Probably my favourite video of yours so far! Informative, and you even hit that sweet 10 minute mark for youtube lol
Thanks man. 10 minutes doesn't matter much for me because I'm not monetized yet, just happens to be how long a lot of my crap ends up being haha.
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8:00 Hydra are animals, they're related to sea anemones and jellyfish.
Ya, rewatching it I could have worded it better.
Yes they are like worms. I use the dewormer used for dogs to get rid of them. It does not affect small animals like snails.
I found detritus worms and am ok with it, cos the minute I saw it a neon green rasbora eat it lol
I'd love to know more about algea. I successfully treated against cyanobacteria, and now I have beard algea 🤦🏻♂️ I reduced the lighting, and I'm going to reduce it some more, and I'm going to feed less too. I'm doing around 30% water changes around once or twice a week, cleaning filters, glass, siphoning as much mulm of the bottom as I can and picking as much algea as I can... any other suggestions from you or anyone else would be great. Thx
I would try some hydrogen peroxide to kill algae. you can spot treat with a pipette or even just lightly dose the entire tank every now and then. it's a great little trick to keep your tanks clean!
@@BobMossNanoTanks Hey Bob, thanks for your reply, in a 50lt tank how much hydrogen peroxide would you recommend? My hydrogen P is 2%.
I have several fish and 3 amano shrimp in there.
1-4mL max.
Hi I used to have a bunch of aquariums I had to stop doing that because I had no idea what types of dangers were in them can you please tell me what actual anything that goes into a freshwater aquarium could be hazardous to humans if handled as far as parasites go I would really appreciate it thank you so much
I think the only thing to really worry about is infections from the bacteria in the water. If it enters an open wound or you consume it, there is a small chance you develop a slight infection but unless immunocompromised there isn't really a high risk to anyone. There are some worms / leeches that might latch onto you but they generally be small and harmless. I think the worst thing you can get is a rare form of TB but I really wouldn't worry about that stuff at all.
I have little blueish worm like things with yellowish spots. The largest is about ~1/4 inch in my reef tank.
Everything I've been able to find says it might be a type of planaria. Does it have a triangle shaped head?
First off...LOVE THE INTRO...and I seen one of these bugs in my little Bamboo Cube. It was black and just bounced from place to place, almost like it had a cyclops head on two ends.I didn't see you mention it.
Thank you! I try to have fun haha.
There is a part two to this, perhaps its a water flea?
Good stuff
thank you very much!
had the light off in my small 10L nursery/quarantine for about a week since I sent some guppies to their forever home. turned the light back on today to make some prep for new assassins coming in and there are thousands of tiny tiny white worms all over the glass. so very very small but can be seen to move. not a clue what they are but they are everywhere. any help would be appreciated. are these very young detritus worms? no plants in the tank and I have nothing from the wild (all my plants are store bought in sealed containers) in my main so can't be planaria surely.
I'm leaning towards detritus worms or rhabdocoela. Both harmless and usually kept in check by the fish population. It would make sense for them to be more noticeable after the fish are gone
@@BobMossNanoTanks oh it's been a fascinating couple of days watching this tank. after my comment I seeded the tank with a few juvenile pond snails just to see what would happen. after 2 or 3 days I was seeing baby pond snails floating about the water and crawling along the glass and the worms were starting to decrease in number. the pond snail babbies were eating the worms. saw it with my own peepers crawling around the glass like Pac-Man eating all the dots. was cool to see.
Do you have to get rid of them?
most you can leave, some will attack fish and shrimp.
How about little black dots , - i think its maybe aquatic mites. Came with java moss or moss balls. How to get rid of them ?
I'd have to see a picture to know for sure. In the water or on the surface?
You could try peroxide treatments? Lowering the amount you feed is usually good enough to limit pest populations though.
I keep a 55 gal freshwater tank and I was so worried to see detritus worms (small & white and wiggling swimming) and what I think are planarian based on movement. I tried to research the risk of them on my fish and my own health when cleaning… but I note you have them listed under non-beneficial. I don’t keep shrimp, and I lightly vacuum-gravel 1x a week to control the population. Would you recommend treating the tank to eliminate them? Or is it not such a big deal? I know planarian can excrete toxins but I don’t think I have enough, and I clean often enough, to avoid toxic volumes.
If they are planaria, they can actually attack and kill your shrimps. I would dose with No Planaria or fenbendazole to kill the pests
Hey Bob Moss, did you have any tips for removing scuds in a tank? I currently have been cycling mine and added java moss and floater plants and noticed one that I immediately took out but recently found another one and I'm paranoid lol Should I restart or is there a good way to remove them?
if they are reproducing it may be impossible to fully remove them. you can buy scud traps IIRC but if they are a continuous issue, you may have to restart the tank
The Microworm (Panagrellus redivivus) that was and is widely cultured on Baker's Yeast inoculated cereal based media as baby fish food, long before Vinegar Eels were widely cultured for this purpose is also a nematode.
Tubifex, Blackworms (Lumbriculus), and Whiteworms (Enchytraeus) are also annelid worms.
Some species of Planaria in the family Dugesiidae have two pigmented eyes that bear an amusing resemblance to cartoon Human cockeyes (Dugesia spp., Cura spp., etc.).
There are some flat worms you should mention that are harmless. I think this is important because people run out and treat their tanks because they saw a flat worm. Rhabdocoela.
I take this back.. what I thought was rhabdocoela I believe is still planaria.. round head and all. These little demons.
I recently caught a leech in my 29 tall. After removing it and doing some redecorating I noticed a group of small black egg like things on my driftwood any ideas?
Do you have any snails? I don't think leeches lay eggs like that.
@@BobMossNanoTanks no I don't have any snails I think it's some sort of mushroom/fungus after more research into it
@@davidcrain4047 Hard to say without seeing a picture. Fungus would make sense.
Tbh thankyou so much bro that taught me a lot,bro I love that bob ross in the tank and 😂😂😂 yeah all around great video/any experience with black piranha?
Thank you so so much! That means a ton! And no, never kept piranha. Sounds dangerous lol
Man that was helpful! Thanks! What about the horsehair worm?
Thank you so much.
I wouldn't consider the horsehair worm "common" among the micro fauna, but it can definitely be a problem. Some dewormer like fenbendazole should take care of it!
@@BobMossNanoTanks, you are most welcome! So they aren't common, hmm. Would you do me a favor and take a look at this? I started an ecosphere 2 weeks ago from my local lake in Texas. Is this a horsehair worm? Also at 1:24 is another "alien" worm I can't figure out. th-cam.com/video/HUiL-VCXJ08/w-d-xo.html
@@missdolittle YO THAT IS AN EARTHWORM LOL
@@BobMossNanoTanks Thanks! Now what about the other one? I just took a new video of it since I found it again, it's one hungry strong critter. It's the tail end that's flower shaped...it kinda walks on it: th-cam.com/video/_cAn7WuGfiM/w-d-xo.html
@@missdolittle honestly I am kind of stumped. I am leaning towards a type of planaria...
Can any one tell me what can be web like thing which continuesly expanding all over tank glass and on other things in aquarium
Like a white fuzz? It's probably excess biofilm caused by high organics. It can be removed manually but it usually will go away eventually.