Millions of dust like swimmers!!

[jay]

I had a good look at our aquarium today, and we noticed millioins of white dust like things swimming in the tank! I tryed getting a picture of them, but they are just way to small to photograph. It looks like they are having some kind of wild party.

Should I be worried?

I was planning on putting my clean up crew in tomorrow which includes 2-3 blood shrimp in a 46 gallon tank.

I'm hoping that the shrimp will get ride of what ever it is since they are parasite removers / cleaners.


Jay

 

[davenia7]

amphipods and copepods maybe, those would be a good thing.

 

[skipm]

Its pretty hard to say what you are seeing. There could be lots of different things that have a larval stage that could be swimming around in your tank. Most of them would be eaten fairly quickly once some fish are added to the tank.