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    White particles crawling..

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    Hi Bros here,

    I'm having these tiny white particles crawling around in my shrimps tank, they are really tiny, need to look real hard to spot them. Somewhat they have tails, i wonder any bros can advise me what can they be?
    I ever thought could it be baby cherries? Or isit something else? I wanted to take some pics of them but my camera not powerful enough to take a clearer view. They are little transparent on their bodies.

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    maybe it's planaria?

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    Quote Originally Posted by avant
    maybe it's planaria?
    bro, dont think so, went to did a search on google, doesn't look like planaria. Basically the white particles have somewhat a splitting tail like (like a shrimp)
    or does any bros here have any pics of newly born shrimps(few days old)??

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    could be copepods or ostracods
    ignore them, they're harmless and feed on leftovers
    if you have small fish they'll eat them

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    but i think his tank is a pure shrimp tank.. not sure if the shrimps will be affected though..
    but if its a shrimp fry, then its good news!

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    I used to have some organism like what was described for my cherry shrimp tank.
    I introduced a few of the small Boraras Maculatus and they cleared it. The Boraras don't seem to eat the shrimps as the shrimp population kept increasing.
    koah fong
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    ok bros,
    thanks for your advise!

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