What are these "bugs" in my aquarium?!

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Aquariumferret

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So I recently had an ich infestation in my betta tank and decided to copper which unfortunatly ended up being to harsh for my giant betta. To kill off the ich faster I raised the tank temp to 94 degrees and thats where it has been for a solid ten days. I removed all of the copper through water changes and chemical filter changes. I had hoped the high temp alone would be enough to kill the parasites. But now looking closely today I noticed there are these little "bugs" crawling all over a stick I have in there. They are too small to notice any little features but they sorta look like little aphids but they are whitish/grey in color. Does anybody know what these are? Are they harmful to fish? And i'm pretty sure I just noticed a little white worm about a centimeter in length sqiggle to the bottom. I have a new fish arriving in the mail from aquabid in about five days so i'm afraid these things whatever they are could harm him :( What can survive in 94 degree water?! Should I add the copper for these five days and remove out right before i get my fish just to be sure I killed everything? Please help! Thanks.
 
So I recently had an ich infestation in my betta tank and decided to copper which unfortunatly ended up being to harsh for my giant betta. To kill off the ich faster I raised the tank temp to 94 degrees and thats where it has been for a solid ten days. I removed all of the copper through water changes and chemical filter changes. I had hoped the high temp alone would be enough to kill the parasites. But now looking closely today I noticed there are these little "bugs" crawling all over a stick I have in there. They are too small to notice any little features but they sorta look like little aphids but they are whitish/grey in color. Does anybody know what these are? Are they harmful to fish? And i'm pretty sure I just noticed a little white worm about a centimeter in length sqiggle to the bottom. I have a new fish arriving in the mail from aquabid in about five days so i'm afraid these things whatever they are could harm him :( What can survive in 94 degree water?! Should I add the copper for these five days and remove out right before i get my fish just to be sure I killed everything? Please help! Thanks.

Have you got another tank spare??? Which is fully cycled because if it was me I would totally restart this tank from a fresh five days should be long enough to cycle if you use already established water from another tank :) just my opinion!
 
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