Small 'fleas' Just Discovered In My Tank, Do You Know Their Na

[aaronnorth]

there is hundreds of them, i didn't notice them yesterday when i did a water change, will they eat my plants?
the fish will probobaly eat them but i don't want to take a chace.

the large patch of yellow is a flake that they have probobly feeding on, is there any way of removing, treatments.

a few are jumping on water surface,

tropical freshwater community
plec, clown loach, mollies, endlers, tetras, cory,

 

[the biffster]

i have seen them before but dont ask me what they are
i just think they are some sort of mite not a flea


good luck biff

 

[jourdy288]

Probably a terrestrial athropod coming after the food. What do you feed your fish?

 

[aaronnorth]

Probably a terrestrial athropod coming after the food. What do you feed your fish?

Nutrafin max flake,
algae/ dried blood worm/ dried krill (all pellets)
Frozen bloodworm

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

They're springtails, i've had them in my main tank for over a year now (i believe they live off the algae that has grown under the tanks hood), they've never caused a problem to the fish, the fish even occasionally eat them, so i wouldn't worry about them .

Info on springtails;

http/lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest/Nebline/Springtails.htm


There's thousands of types of springtails but they're basically more or less harmless, they won't do any harm to you or your fish or anything else so its up to up whether you just want to leave them be or get rid of them .

 

[jourdy288]

Cant believe I forgot about those, they make good fish food, yeah, again, they are quite tiny.