CPryor
Aquarium Advice Activist
Hey all,
Just a question out of curiosity - I've had my betta tank for years now (6 years?) and every fall, I get an explosion of these little white bugs -very small; smaller than grains of sand. They move very slowly along the tank sides, and look like they're long and thin, moving like a centipede does, though I cant see if they have legs.
I have a non-filtered, heated, well-planted 5 gal.
I do extra water changes whenever I see them, but they've never hurt the fish in any way. They go away after winter gets underway, and stay away (or out of sight?) until the next fall. I've tried to figure out what they are for many years now, but every thing I find doesn't look right - wrong size or shape.
Any ideas to solve the mystery?
Just a question out of curiosity - I've had my betta tank for years now (6 years?) and every fall, I get an explosion of these little white bugs -very small; smaller than grains of sand. They move very slowly along the tank sides, and look like they're long and thin, moving like a centipede does, though I cant see if they have legs.
I have a non-filtered, heated, well-planted 5 gal.
I do extra water changes whenever I see them, but they've never hurt the fish in any way. They go away after winter gets underway, and stay away (or out of sight?) until the next fall. I've tried to figure out what they are for many years now, but every thing I find doesn't look right - wrong size or shape.
Any ideas to solve the mystery?