What is this?

[HAVAMAL]

Little white bugs crawling inside my crab tank what are they???

 

[Mouth-Brooder-Fanatic]

water fleas? daphnia? (may be same thing lol)
iv had them... they make gooood eatin' for the smaller fishes.

 

[HAVAMAL]

Hope my fiddler crabs eat them!

 

[Mouth-Brooder-Fanatic]

if not, do you have any fish in other tanks?

 

[HAVAMAL]

Oh yeah I could feed them to my community tank and they would love em!

 

[Mouth-Brooder-Fanatic]

what do you keep? honest curiosity... i love hearing about them!

 

[HAVAMAL]

MY TANKS

Tank #1
Oceanic/Aqueon
Size-65gallon
Measurements-36-3/8L x 18-3/8W x 25H
Lighting
Marineland 36inch LED Light strip

Filters-Rena Filstar XP3
AA intern UV sterilizer
Heater- Rena 200w*
Circulation- Aqueon Circulation Pump 950
4 Inch Airstone Disk Powered By A Top Fin Air-4000 Air Pump

Plants-
3 Spiral Bamboo
2 Marimo balls
1 Amazon Sword

Species-
4 Silver Dollar
4 Clown Loach
2 Albino Cory Cat
1 *Pictus Cat
9 *Zebra Danios
1 Black Ghost Knife

Tank # 2*
Oceanic/Aqueon*
42 gallon 'hexagon'*
Measurements
*168 liter: 25 inch by 22 inch by 23 1/2 inches high

Lighting-*
F15T8 18/457mm

Tetra waterfall setup

Species
13 Fiddler Crabs

Plants
1 Marimo ball
3 Spiral Bamboo
Heater
None

TANK #3

Tetra Water Wonders

Size- 1.5 gallons

Measurements
7.5L x 7.5W x 8.5H

Lighting
Built in LED light

Filter
Air pump powered internal*

Heater
None

1 Redhead Cactus



For Cleaning
Whisper Diatomagic Filter

 

[Mouth-Brooder-Fanatic]

darn, you like a good bit of detail :L
42 gal fiddler tank! they must be getting huge! how big is the largest one?

 

[HAVAMAL]

Aboit the size of a nickel, only had them a couple of months

 

[librarygirl]

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Little white bugs crawling inside my crab tank what are they???

Hard to tell from the pic but it could be planaria. Usually a sign of overfeeding. Cut down on the food and they'll go away. Fish can eat them too but not sure about crabs.

 

[HAVAMAL]

Thank you I'll give it a try!