QTOFFER
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Last week, I purchased some Java fern and hornwort at a fish auction... and these little beasties must have tagged along. I've attached a pic.
They'e 1 mm long, reddish-brown insects.
They look like beetles, but they have piercing/sucking mouthparts - that would place them in the same order as aphids (Hemiptera). I figure that they're not good for the plants (as few insects with piercing/sucking mouthparts ever are).
Does anyone know what these guys are and the best way to eradicate them? My tetra doesn't seem interested in eating them, so I've been skimming them off the water surface.
They'e 1 mm long, reddish-brown insects.
They look like beetles, but they have piercing/sucking mouthparts - that would place them in the same order as aphids (Hemiptera). I figure that they're not good for the plants (as few insects with piercing/sucking mouthparts ever are).
Does anyone know what these guys are and the best way to eradicate them? My tetra doesn't seem interested in eating them, so I've been skimming them off the water surface.