Ust & Utstp In Tank - Please Help Identify!

pern

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Unidentified Swimming Thing and Unidentified Thing Stuck to Plant....

Something very very small and white (width of a hair and about 2 ml long) just 'swum' straight up in my tank. To illustrate how small it was, a cruising dwarf rasbora casually munched it up and had room in its mouth to spare! Between two close together java fern leaves (in top of one and under the other) are about 50 tiny tiny white things (say 5 would fit on a pinhead) . I can't get a photo (in fact I can hardly see the things without just about turning my head 360 degrees - exorcist style ). I know it wasn't my Betta male (unless there's something he hasn't mentioned ;)) Should I have talked to my rasboras about contraception earlier :eek:? Has that tiny, tiny little baby hitchhiking snail (unknown breed, about 5 mm long) done the dirty on me and laid eggs :grr:?
Has the (single) bristlenose I'm babysitting been sneaking out at night ?????
Help please!!!!:dunno:
 
Does it look like a tiny stick with hair on top or does it look similer to the description i made??

If so it could be hydra which means ur water is perfect but they hitchicked their way in via plant

Hydra can be deadly to small fish as they are fresh water anemones (sorry about spelling but nemo couldnt say it either let alone spelling lol) any way the have stingers on those hairs which paraliyze fish and tgen they consume tge fish :(
 
Hi Liquid Skills - I couldn't see any hairs on the top - but it was so tiny and I didn't see it for long (before the rasbora munched on it) that I can't be sure...
 
Sounds like planaria worms to me. They are not dangerous but they are a sign of over feeding. If you turn the tank light off for say 3 hours (completely black out the tank) and then turn the lights on, what you see may shock you.
 
I finally got a picture :lol:. First time uploading so I hope it works - there are some 'egglike' things stuck to the underside of one of the leaves...???

http://s1180.photobucket.com/albums/x403/pernnz/
 

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