Baby snails and buglike things

[Damarferg]

At night my tank looks infested with lots of baby snails and little shrimp. Should I worry about this or not. I am more concerned about these snails and there are lots of them. I think one of my snails was spawning so should I worry

 

[Mebbid]

I wouldn't worry about it. They are both good signs As long as they aren't nuisance pests anyways.

Can you get a picture?

 

[Damarferg]

I wouldn't worry about it. They are both good signs As long as they aren't nuisance pests anyways.

Can you get a picture?

Can't really get a good pic they are tiny but yeah thanks I was worried that was a bad sign

 

[Qube]

Look up collonista snail and see if that looks like them. If so, I haven't found them to be bad unless you have a float valve style auto top off, in which case they can cause the float to stick.

 

[Sgc1107]

Think these are the same I had... I had TONS! Way more than I needed it wanted! After I got my six line wrasse they started to disappear! Now... Not 1 in sight. They never hurt anything, just a pain constantly cleaning them off the glass!

 

[jeffaquarius]

The little shrimps could be copepods which help cleaning up detritus.

 

[Damarferg]

The little shrimps could be copepods which help cleaning up detritus.

So if I added a mandarin can he eat the shrimp or copepodes

 

[woody390]

Yes but be wary that mandarins eat tons of Copepods so need a very good supply constantly unless you can train onto frozen food