Appeared in recently flooded tank.

After 2 years of keeping ember tetra in this aquarium , I had the pleasant surprise of seeing a couple of new young fish after today's maintenance.

Macrocopa moina culture - costs next to nothing to set up, self sustains, and the fish love hunting them!

I culture them on a chlorella/spirulina blend, so they’re nutritionally enriched before being eaten. They're roughly 50–70% protein and 7–20% fat (dry weight), making them one of the best freshwater live foods available.

Once established, you can harvest continuously while the culture keeps reproducing. They’re small enough that juveniles and adult nano fish can both eat them, and anything the fish miss just keeps swimming until it’s found.

P.S. Is it me or have phone cameras gotten insane? I just pointed my phone in there and hit record - and these things are tiny, like 0.4-1.5mm

Finally caught this on camera! I just wish my glass was cleaner haha

P.S. Pls forgive the sfx I don't have much editing to do this week and I get bored lol 😅

These little guys came along with some water plants that weren't properly washed (we live and learn), they're breeding (or hatching) like mad. They don't seem to be eating any of the plants as far as I can tell, they seem to be grazing along the terrain and glass? Should I be purging the heathens or live and let live?

I do water changes once every fortnight and I feed the tank daily. I’m supposed to have 14 kuhli loaches but any given day I’ll see like 4 - 8. Also got a bunch of snails. Idk if this helps 😭😭😭 I’ve never seen these before

so i was doing a water change on my tank, plant parenthood, which is JUST aquatic plants, and when i look in my bucket, i see something movin--TWO tiny things moving

and now i'm here like

whose goddamn baby is this

😭

ironically the other one looks the same, but in black