Help! What the heck are these?!

[AJ_117]

I came home to all of these little things crawling on the glass in my tank, and I have no idea what they are or they're a pest.

These only thing I can think of is that I have ghost shrimp in my tank, and they might have had babies. I'm not completely sure though because they don't look like shrimp. I'm about to do a WC and see what happens

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[Fresh2o]

When ghost shrimp breed, the larvae that hatch from the eggs are planktonic and do not resemble the parents at all. They go through a few free swimming stages and after several molts, they start looking like the adults.


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[Fresh2o]

Can you described how they move? Hopping, crawling, darting? Free swimming or on the glass only.
My shrimp tank is a host for many types of harmless invertebrates such as copepods, seed shrimp, limpets, and occasionally, hydra and planaria.


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[AJ_117]

They kind of crawl along the glass and will occasionally dart from spot to spot. They look like mites. I did a WC and didn't see anymore but I'm keeping my eye out

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[Kribensis_2004]

Usually its hard to get the little ghost shrimp from larval stage to adult stage because of what fresh2o said about there life cycle, so I would take my money off of that idea and go with the copepods which are not at all harmful to anything and are a great source of food for fish.

 

[AJ_117]

I haven't seen them back yet, but yeah copepods seems like a logical explanation. I had a buildup of brown/red algae so I thought they came from that, but I don't think that's the case

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