Viwwo

.......... They are kind of cute..... but yeah, I would not want them in my tank.
I have some other weird things that swim about like....sperm:.... and my fish love them. So just maybe like some people said before me, get some small fish that will gobble them up.

bartoli

They are surprisingly cute when to the naked eyes they are mere specks of dust. If your NPT has floating plants and some of the water surface is still, look closely and you will probably see something like tiny specks of dust over the surface of leaf or water. If you disrupt the water surface and see spray-like particles sprung up, those are the creatures. They are so small and light weight that they actually walk on still water as if walking on solid surface.

While taking the picture, I observed them through the camera eye piece. They were very interactive. I saw them confronting each other with their antenna waving. Those little buggers busily moved about almost non-stop. Quite an energetic bunch and very very cute! Amazing at how much life is in the size of a piece of dust.

From time to time, I saw fish nipping at the water surface, presumably trying to catch those little buggers as snack.

londonloco

I want some white bugs!

Dielectric

Those could be it, but ive never seen them on the surface. i will do some poking around on the web today while i'm at work.. so far those or scuds seem to be what its been narrowd down to.

bartoli

If you have an Agfa Lupe, flip it up size down, hold it over the white dots and you will get a very good view.

lildark185

I bet these would make really good food for fish fry.

davemill

It's amazing how many living things have appeared in my tanks. I've seen planaria, nearly microscopic copepods, hydra, long red worms, various insect larvae, and little hoppy things on the surface and driftwood (perhaps what is being described in this post). None last long after the fish discover them, except the little hoppers.

Try putting some dirty water from the substrate under a microscope. You'll quickly find out that in your "fish" tank, fish are the minority inhabitants, by a long shot!

lildark185

I have white/gray bugs on the top of my water. The output of my eheim is below the water surface but enough to move it around. A light film forms on top of the water and I just noticed these bugs jumping on the surface. I originally thought they were oxygen/co2 bubbles leaving the water popping but they are in fact bugs.

Dielectric

i have those jumpy little surface bugs in one of my soil tanks. i think they came in on some plants i collected

lildark185

My substrate is completely flourite. Unless they came from some plants I bought, I'm not sure where they'd come from.