What Are Those Little Bugs And Worms In Your Aquarium (PART 2)? - Uncommon Aquarium Micro Fauna

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They're on the glass, they're on your hardscape, they're even in your substrate! What ARE those little things crawling around inside your aquarium and growing all over everything? Join me as I go over some of the more uncommon types of aquarium micro fauna, which ones are beneficial and which ones should be taken care of ASAP. This is PART TWO of my microfauna videos, be sure to check out the first one here: • What Are Those Little ...
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[@jamiea9067]

you forgot alligators they really do damage in your tank.🤣

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

I don't think they're small enough to count lol

[@laughmaster1000]

Great info. Looking fancy as well.

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

thank you :) sometimes I try lol

[@quickglimpse101]

this was a great video, and I learned something.

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

thank you! i try to be informative but fun.

[@apss5736]

Excited to watch the video

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Thanks as always!

[@arcticwinds6125]

Great video, via information, love the sound effects and move out takes never hurts ... 🙃👍🦐

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Thanks as always for the view and comment! Do you like the more relaxed style of these last two or the more energetic style i was doing before?

[@arcticwinds6125]

@@BobMossNanoTanks More energetic style, love the outtakes, sound bites, and your high level of energy. There are 100s of straight forward shrimp KZbinrs out there, you style hooked me in and keeps me coming back. Don’t get me wrong I love Mark’s Shrimp tank for the vast information, and he is not pure dry, and I also have other I watch too for the Caridina information, you do what is BEST for your channel I am sure I will not run off.🙂👍

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

@@arcticwinds6125 I always appreciate the input! Thank you. I will be honest, I haven't been as motivated lately due to some things happening in real life. The delay on these new tanks is making me a sad panda.

[@arcticwinds6125]

@@BobMossNanoTanks It is all understandable, real life is kicking me around too. How may longer until the little bundle of hope is here, I know that will keep you and the wife spinning, and she'll keep you spinning until the little one is here too. 🙂

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

@@arcticwinds6125 start of April! I will probably take a short hiatus around that time to be honest.

[@fbasantajr]

Hi Bob, great information.... Thank you from NYC

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Thanks for watching!

[@apss5736]

I may have springtails in my planted endler tank but as far as I'm aware they leave everything alone and the fish may eat them.

[@hint_of_blue]

I have springtails but only on the lids, I don’t think they were aquatic but cane from potted plants I had on placed in the lid

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Yup,.they're only a problem if they consume a lot of mold and then get eaten.

[@thorn7742]

i have had the great diving water beetles as like kinda pets fed them worms alot but no longer have them

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

That could be cool. I'd be worried about them getting to my other tanks though.

[@thorn7742]

@@BobMossNanoTanks yea

[@apss5736]

As far as unwanted critters I've had Hydra Mini ramshorn snail Rhabdo something flatworms Copepods Bladder snail Pond snail

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

I've had almost all the ones from part one, not so much these guys.

[@markvickery5894]

Besides hydra and pond snails, I love all of those and add them to each of my tanks

[@gardian1701]

Good video, loads of useful info even with the annoying overuse of meme sound effects. 👌

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Thanks a ton. I was in a learning phase with my editing with this video lol. Definitely toned it down in more recent videos.

[@TheReal_Pim_Tool]

I've got some kind of buggy thing in my aquarium that is about 1 cm, roundish shaped with legs under its shell. I've also super fast and good at hiding to I haven't got a great look at it. Anyone have any idea what it is?

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Possibly a seed shrimp? if it was bigger I would say a scud. I don't think it's anything to worry about.

[@zombiekate]

Great information dude. Kinda wanna set everything on fire now though 🙃

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

I know how you feel. I got the creeps making this haha

[@koenwijnen9186]

man.. Cycling my first aquarium for a few weeks now, pretty much done with the cycle. But now after I have first noticed bladder snails, which werent that bad but they reproduce crazy fast.. Then nasty white worms (detritus worms), then "moss animals" and now the worst of all.. which im not even sure if this is it because ive been searching for hours and found your video... Chironomidae.. Filthy larvae.. I noticed them this evening when inspecting my tank, but im not even sure if its that. They do look like Chironomidae that you showed but they actually make a sort of tube/cocoon that they seem to live in. They venture out a little bit to eat algae it seems. Ive been taking out dying plant material more and ordered a good gravel vac because the simple hose im using aint enough clearly. But this aint a great start to the hobby.. The larvae are to much for me it creeps me out..

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

You could try dosing h2o2 (peroxide) to help kill the little things. Worst case, something like Seachem Excel will murder everything lol.

[@koenwijnen9186]

@@BobMossNanoTanks Yeah after some research i just wanted them out the same day so I did a full clean. There werent as many in there as i thought ( i believe now), cleaned the filters and i havent seen one since.

[@thorn7742]

I have a bunch of white worms that move like a snail and are skinny like a detris worm

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

do they have a flat head or is it rounded? they could be planaria but they could also be rhabdocoela

[@thorn7742]

@@BobMossNanoTanks round head like a D but flat

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

@@thorn7742 most likely rhabdo, without seeing a picture.

[@RaptorRockDrakeJesus]

Any chance I can buy live water fleas or any other small harmless organisim? I'm gonna be setting up a tank with crocodile toothpick fish and I want them to have a steady food supply.

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

That's a good question, I have never seen them for purchase myself. Generally, the eggs / larvae are just in your tap water, if you give them enough of a food source they will reproduce. Most people's fish clear them out so they never see them, but in shrimp tanks there are no predators so you see a lot more of them.

[@markvickery5894]

Eggs/larvae do not exist in your tap water, best way to find them is by going out to slow moving streams, ponds, and vernal pools, collecting some water and dirt from there in a jar, and then letting it sit for about 2 weeks. This gives you time to observe it and make sure there aren’t any bad things like pond snails, hydra, mosquito larvae, leeches, or anything else that might be detrimental to the health of your aquarium. Then I personally like to take a pipette to suck out the things I want and add them to my aquarium, in an attempt to keep the population in the jar going so I always have a confined started population that allows me to easily catch them to add to any new tanks

[@JustJoshing4L]

​@markvickery5894 Not always, but they definitely can be. Lotta sources online that confirm it. Maybe not those specifically, but ringwirm,flatworms,mosquito larvae have been found in tap water before.

[@gobygal]

Is there a way to introduce microfauna into a tank? All the plants I have were sold to be pest free so I doubt they will have any kind of hitch hikers. I was considering grabbing some plants or a rock out of a local pond or stream, but I don't know if that would be too high risk for parasites. Any suggestions?

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

most just live in your tap water to be honest. try overfeeding sometime and watch the detritus worms appear from nowhere lol

[@xavmiz3070]

@@BobMossNanoTanks Well that's disturbing since I just finished a glass of tap water. Does refrigeration kill them by any chance?

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

@@xavmiz3070 um, probably not. Don't worry, they're totally harmless in the tap water, they just get big in the tanks.

[@markvickery5894]

Most of them don’t live in your tap water, idk where he got that from, however what you can do is go get a jar of pond water, then let it sit for a couple months, this way you make sure you don’t have any of the bad critters like hydra or pond snails is water beetles. And then what I like to do is take a pipette to harvest cyclops, copepods, daphnia, and whatever else that I actually want in my tank and add them to my tank

[@gobygal]

@@markvickery5894 A quarantine system would have been much smarter than just putting a pond rock straight into my tank. I got lucky this time, but I'll definitely have to do the careful approach next time around.

[@Lavo57]

How do i get beneficial microfauna for my aquarium without getting parasites as well , it's impossible

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Most are actually in your tap water already and just need a food source to thrive. Just over feed a little and they'll start popping up lol

[@markvickery5894]

If you’re talking about microscopic organisms you can’t see, they will naturally exist in tap water as well as on plants you add to your tank. The ones shown in this video however must be bought online, transferred from an existing tank whether your own or another aquarists, or collected yourself from the wild

[@Mahhkz]

I am unsure if we “like” them, more, they make us nervous and we want to know what they are. I guess they’re kinda cool and fun to learn about, but I definitely don’t enjoy them as much as fish haha

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

I just meant the video lol. Microfauna part 1 is my most viewed video.

[@Kraus-]

Whirlygig hype

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

glad you enjoyed!

[@media7world]

Nice 👍 Add some shorts on your channel.. Your channel will grow up faster ❤️

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Not the biggest fan of shorts, they're weird for aquarium stuff as well.

[@ticket2space621]

@@BobMossNanoTanks keep it real bro and stick to what you like

[@kinglyzard]

7:15 Giant Water Bugs are not beetles. They are true bugs of the Order Hemiptera. Beetles are Coleoptera.

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

o cool. i'll have to pin this

[@breedingbubbles]

Different strokes for different folks. I loved the first video, but the sound effects on this one really put me off. I see at least one person liked it though, so... can't please everyone. Good to mention backswimmer if you're going to mention water boatman. They look very similar , but water boatman is harmless whereas a backswimmer is a major predator for stuff like Daphnia, as I recently discovered.

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

tbh i'm still trying to find my groove and the right amount of sounds vs just speaking endlessly. i find videos where its just the person tlaking to be extremely boring.

[@MohdAradi]

the editor got liberal with the sfx too many bro, too many

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Plot twist, I am the editor. I've toned it down in more recent videos.

[@SRC267]

Good, got annoying. Although i don't mind the Bruh sfx​@@BobMossNanoTanks

[@FirstLast-numba1]

this one is not as good as part 1

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

Aw dang. What could I have done differently?

[@markvickery5894]

Good video, but don’t appreciate you misinforming people that most of these exist in tap water. This is untrue, especially with how water is treated. The only thing that still exists in tap water would be too small to observe with the naked eye and need a microscope. Please stop misinforming people

[@BobMossNanoTanks]

most are microscopic and need the right conditions, i.e our tanks to grow to where we can see them

[@markvickery5894]

@@BobMossNanoTanksbesides rotifers, phytoplankton, slime mold, and possibly bryozoans, Altho not sure about that last one, this is untrue. None of these creatures whether adult, larval, or eggs, exist in tap water, especially if you’re on city water. Maybe if you have well water there could be some. Set up a sterile brand new tank, that either hasn’t ever been set up before or has been sterilized with ethanol, and just add tap water and food, and I guarantee you won’t see any of the other creatures mentioned in this video, except maybe some larvae from flying insects if you don’t have a lid. This also has to be set up inside, away from other tanks, and avoid cross contamination

[@charitybrook6279]

​@@BobMossNanoTanksI have well water that comes from an underground spring. The water contains huge numbers of copepods which seem to grow large enough for me to see their structures in all of my tanks and also propagation vessels for my plants.