LyraGuppi
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What are these tiny organisms on my aquarium walls?!
They are tiny, around the size of a line in quotation marks. " <<<Tiny!!
There are two types...one that looks like a tadpole with antennae, and one that looks like a lobster. Both are off white. Here are some pics, sorry, I would need a macro lens to get them in clear.
That one is the tadpole variety. It swims in a "squirt" like fashion, darting along to the other wall.
Lobster:
Same swimming.
What I'm afraid of is that I used food to cycle the tank in the first part. Did I hatch some parasite into my cycling tank with a noob mistake?
Will these guys hurt shrimp or fish? Does anyone know what they are?!
I need help fast because the tank is nearly ready for fish.
If anyone needs me to draw them I will.
They are tiny, around the size of a line in quotation marks. " <<<Tiny!!
There are two types...one that looks like a tadpole with antennae, and one that looks like a lobster. Both are off white. Here are some pics, sorry, I would need a macro lens to get them in clear.

That one is the tadpole variety. It swims in a "squirt" like fashion, darting along to the other wall.
Lobster:

Same swimming.
What I'm afraid of is that I used food to cycle the tank in the first part. Did I hatch some parasite into my cycling tank with a noob mistake?
Will these guys hurt shrimp or fish? Does anyone know what they are?!
I need help fast because the tank is nearly ready for fish.
If anyone needs me to draw them I will.