Unknown insect found

[darrentyl]

Hi all,

Yesterday while watching my tank, found this insect and didn't manage to catch it. In the end, took out all my stuffs in tank just to catch this insect.

Do any bros know what is this? Is this harmful to my shrimps?


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[Jianyuan]

Looks like a dragonfly nymph. Do a search on the stickies of this forum you can locate the thread about bugs found in tanks.
And yes, it is harmful to shrimps.

[newlife]

It's a damselfly Nyamph....
There should have more then 1...
Have you added any new plants in?

[Shadow]

take it out they are harmfull

[darrentyl]

Thanks bro. So far I did clear up my tank and wait for an hour for the tank to settle down and check through all my DW and plants. Till date only manage to find one and i do hope there's anymore.

Looks like a dragonfly nymph. Do a search on the stickies of this forum you can locate the thread about bugs found in tanks.
And yes, it is harmful to shrimps.

Huh? I only manage to catch one. And i don't have time to check on the tank again later. Yesterday only manage to settle down at 0100hrs... and tonight i will be flying overseas.
Finger cross. By any chance, any idea where will this insect come from? I did add some plants recently. I actually soak and wash for 2 days before getting it to my tank.

It's a damselfly Nyamph....
There should have more then 1...
Have you added any new plants in?

Roger that. Hope i did manage to get all of them out... I even see shrimplets running around.

take it out they are harmfull

[darrentyl]

Actually I even have thoughts of setting up another tank. Will give it a serious thoughts when i'm back.

[reiner09]

Hoho...i see.It's a very special species (shrimp look-alike).. This type of 'shrimp', lfs like to keep it with their plants because they don't eat plants,but when the plants goes into another tank, they will have their feast on small livestocks after being starved so long.. Advise for you is that ,you see one ..KILL one.. This little guy has a name related to dragons though..

[darrentyl]

Haha... I got him out and put him in one of my tau hu box... Maybe later when i'm back home, will feed it to my beta...

Hoho...i see.It's a very special species (shrimp look-alike).. This type of 'shrimp', lfs like to keep it with their plants because they don't eat plants,but when the plants goes into another tank, they will have their feast on small livestocks after being starved so long.. Advise for you is that ,you see one ..KILL one.. This little guy have a name related to dragon though..

[newlife]

mostly from plants....the eggs lay on the plants.
if mayfly nymph still ok.....
but too bad....you kana this...

you can actually check Youtube on how they prey for live food

[darrentyl]

Very interesting.

Will spend some time scanning my tank later. Hope everything is fine.

mostly from plants....the eggs lay on the plants.
if mayfly nymph still ok.....
but too bad....you kana this...

you can actually check Youtube on how they prey for live food

[xconnect.]

That thing may eat ur Betta as last time it killed my cousins guppy be careful man

[darrentyl]

It actually eat up the betta?

So fierce... Think might as well just destroy it later.

Thanks.

That thing may eat ur Betta as last time it killed my cousins guppy be careful man

[xconnect.]

Destroy it better

[hyun007]

Damselfly nymph!
Eeewww.....dangerous for shrimplets!
If it is the bigger species, will buffet on your adults as well.

Did you add in anything recently?
If yes, it might have hijacked from there.
If not, there might be more than 1.

[stormhawk]

I would not kill it however. They make interesting subjects. Just feed with frozen bloodworm or baby guppies from time to time. Watching them while they hunt can be a fascinating experience.

[hyun007]

I would not kill it however. They make interesting subjects. Just feed with frozen bloodworm or baby guppies from time to time. Watching them while they hunt can be a fascinating experience.

They tend to prefer life food and I do not have the supply for them.
Also, I am not keen to feed them live fish.

[Punggoltan]

I hoped I will not have the chance to offer you these insects in the event I find it. Keke...

I would not kill it however. They make interesting subjects. Just feed with frozen bloodworm or baby guppies from time to time. Watching them while they hunt can be a fascinating experience.

[lucasjiang]

I once kept a dragonfly nymph that i found. Quite boring, it just stayed on the plants and i did not see it hunt anything at all even though there were many shrimps-.- it just remained like that in my tank for half a year then it suddenly died

[huizhong]

hi, so is this a dragonfly or mayflt nymph?

[lucasjiang]

hi, so is this a dragonfly or mayflt nymph?

That is a damselfly nymph