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Aquarium Advice Regular
I have a 40 gallon aquarium with 2 angelfish and a nerite snail. Tank has been running this setup for a couple months now. A couple weeks ago, I noticed these brown dots on the glass, and saw they were moving. They sat at the water surface and down by the sand. I tried to google them but I couldn’t find anything like these, my best guess is they’re water fleas. Extremely tiny perfectly round brown bugs. Thousands of them now. They will stick to the angelfish and irritate them.
They’re so small the angels have no interest in eating them. They bounce around in the water in “jumps” which is what made me think water fleas but they don’t really look the same from pictures I’ve seen. Besides the stray few sticking onto the angels and being flicked off, they don’t seem to be causing any problems. Fish still eating happily. Water parameters are normal
I want them gone though. Water changes, gravel vac, and increasing surface agitation has done nothing to get rid of them. I don’t know what to do or what these are or where they came from. Suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Tanks have had nothing new for months. Help?
They’re so small the angels have no interest in eating them. They bounce around in the water in “jumps” which is what made me think water fleas but they don’t really look the same from pictures I’ve seen. Besides the stray few sticking onto the angels and being flicked off, they don’t seem to be causing any problems. Fish still eating happily. Water parameters are normal
I want them gone though. Water changes, gravel vac, and increasing surface agitation has done nothing to get rid of them. I don’t know what to do or what these are or where they came from. Suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Tanks have had nothing new for months. Help?