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What are these things crawling around the surface of my tank?

Is it a good or bad thing?

How do I get rid of these parasites? :cry:

the white small insects is good thing in small amount. but will become pest when the amount in increase.

y i say this is a good thing in small amount, bcoz, they can become food supply for ur fish when u r out for vacation. so far (for me) no report saying this thing harm to the the tank.

p/s: if any1 kno this thing more than me pls correct my mistake. thanks! :)

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wow~ tts gd food, u can intro dragonets if u want.. catch some for me can? :D my mandarin like undergoin slimming course now.. ha.. lack of tis gd things u got now.. B)

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oh....got me worried for a while there....

I'm thinking of getting a mandarin too...beautiful colours....

Any advice Lin?

well, i got a green mandarin.. he is cute! a veri cute fish i can say.. dun wori, as long u got LR for it to hide and to pray ard, he shld stay long..if not, tis fish is hard to keep, they are really choosy fish u noe.. an inexpensive fish.. dun get a slim one, coz sometime the FS nv feed them, by the time they get to ur tank, they forgot how to eat~ lolz.. :P

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if its a new tank...i wont advice u to get manadrins, mandarins should be kept in a mature tank where the reproduction of pods are more consistent, for a new tank, there is alot of pods as there are no predators, when u add a mandarin in, after they finish up all these pods, there will be very little left....and unless u can ween them on mysis or brine shrimp, they will starve to death

;) agreed with decentkid~ pls take note of tt too.. :peace:

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I just noticed those white insects in my tank too! my tank is new and only running for 2 weeks but suddenly all these things appeared overnight! where did they come from and besides a mandarin, what else can eat them?

I did notice my maroon crown eating those on the side of the tank nearer to the surface. Think they are food for the fish too, but don't think they are substitues for real fish foods.

Just my two cents :lol:

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I just noticed those white insects in my tank too! my tank is new and only running for 2 weeks but suddenly all these things appeared overnight! where did they come from and besides a mandarin, what else can eat them?

hmm.. i dun even noe how those 'insects' look like too, nv had tt b4 :pinch: , they juz come along with those LR u had.. if they are pods, mandarin surely will do the cleaning i believe.. :P i duno what other fishes had tt for meal.. mayb others can advice too.. :rolleyes:

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Mandarins feed on copepods.... I had mine for months and honestly I dun see any copepods on my tank glass after the initial stage.... Yet my mandarin is still alive...

The truth is, many of the copepods hide in the rocks and the mandarin has its own way to find it, unless you tank condition is real jialat or too heavily loaded with too many fishes, if not, no worries at all, the copepods will grow by itself... :)

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hi..

actually i think quite a few fishes eat the pods.. i've seen my clowns eat them.. but they only eat them if they happen to be swimming in front of them, unlike the mandarin.. think its a passing phase.. after u start stocking you will realise u don't see the pods around that often anymore, so buying a mandarin fish first isn't such a good idea. its better to let ur tank mature first as the mandarin is not an easy fish to keep.

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