Hi Kyle
It sounds like you have ostracod. In my experience my fish do not eat
them
and they are a bit of a pest.
Dimilin is a chitin synthesis inhibitor and will wipe these guys out.
http://www.pondliner.com/Dimilin.htm Here is the easiest product to get a
hold of. Search for it with your favorite vendor.
Best fishes
David
-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org] On
Behalf Of Kyle Osterholt
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:06 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: [Killietalk] daphnia
Can freezedried daphnia (hikari brand to be specific) come back to life?
reason I ask is that I have a 10 gallon that I had up and running with
snails before and did a complete teardown, treated with flubendazole to
kill
any remaining snails and after several water changes, added some mollies
to
cycle the tank and then spawned some rainbows. The fry in the tank are
about 10-14 days old now and last night I noticed tons of tiny green bugs
swimming about in the tank about the size of a common black flea. After
doing some talking locally with some clubmembers I was suggested daphnia
might be my unknown critter but how'd I get them? They swim very, very
well, better than the rainbow fry and the fry seem scared of them since
they're about the same size as the fry's body without tail. they also can
land themselves onto decorations or glass and crawl around like bugs. I
just remembered I fed a little hikari freezedried daphnia around a week
ago,
could this be possible? I can!
't find
any good photos of daphnia without being microscope or drawings of
multiple enlargements. thanks, Kyle
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