surface bugs??

colourfuldog · #1 05-24-2006, 07:43 AM

I have set up a 20 gallon propagation tank about a month ago...
(PICS SOON) I have noticed some tiny insect body floating near my skimmer outlet..I didn't think anything of it I thought maybe some insects flew in and died.. I was cleaning the surface water when I had noticed the little bus where everywhere and seemed tobe attracted to the spotlight I had lit after my lights day/actinics where turned off..
Any one out there have/had these bugs??
They seem to float and skim on the surface really fast.
Are they ok for my tank?

Rondelet · #2 05-24-2006, 08:48 AM

Sounds like free swimming copepods (aka "pods"). You're fish will love them. Perfectly harmless.

Kryten · #3 05-24-2006, 07:20 PM

I think I have had the same thing. They look like little flies, right? Zipping about above the surface of the water and not in it? I don't know what they are either.

colourfuldog · #4 05-25-2006, 03:44 AM

yeah yeah like little flies...
But I think theyd all died!?
I can see all of them 50-75 floating on the surface now..

i have crabs · #5 05-25-2006, 02:43 PM

i had a friend with the same thing a while back,first they looked like flys then spiders but i never saw them myself

DanG · #6 05-25-2006, 04:40 PM

If they're all dead and the fish aren't eating them, pull them out.

colourfuldog · #7 06-11-2006, 07:41 AM

The little bugs are back and I noticed that they are larves on the glass and hatching after lights out!!
Are these ok??
I have no fish in the tank should I get one??
I just wanted a coral only tank.

G1GY · #8 06-11-2006, 07:45 AM

They are harmless.

Edit:

I'd maybe concider trying a small mandarin in there.

KrazyKuch · #9 06-11-2006, 08:06 AM

I would throw a mandarin or 2 in their, with that high a pod count you would never have to feed them!!!!