Some kind of bug on top of my plants

[Emil Krey]

I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs on
top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of the
aquarium. It seems like it is not going down into the water, just on top of
the water. They are abouth 1mm yellow/red or smaller, difficult to see them
wery clear. when I tried to squeese them they just jump away. They can
"walk" on the water.

Someone got anny qlue what it is, how I can get rid of them ?

Emil Krey

[Yan Chengyi]

Can't recall the name of the insect. But maybe you would want to remove the
plant for a while and let the fish enjoy them.

"Emil Krey" > wrote in message
...
> I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs on
> top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of the
> aquarium. It seems like it is not going down into the water, just on top
of
> the water. They are abouth 1mm yellow/red or smaller, difficult to see
them
> wery clear. when I tried to squeese them they just jump away. They can
> "walk" on the water.
>
> Someone got anny qlue what it is, how I can get rid of them ?
>
> Emil Krey
>
>

[Emil Krey]

That would be interesting to try, but I don't belive my fishes bother abouth
them. These bugs realy are small and the fishes doesn't seem to see them,
and how abouth these on the aquarium glass above watherline, my fishes
doesn't jump for nothing.

Emil

"Yan Chengyi" > wrote in message
...
> Can't recall the name of the insect. But maybe you would want to remove
the
> plant for a while and let the fish enjoy them.
>
> "Emil Krey" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs
on
> > top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of
the
> > aquarium. It seems like it is not going down into the water, just on top
> of
> > the water. They are abouth 1mm yellow/red or smaller, difficult to see
> them
> > wery clear. when I tried to squeese them they just jump away. They can
> > "walk" on the water.
> >
> > Someone got anny qlue what it is, how I can get rid of them ?
> >
> > Emil Krey
> >
> >
>
>

[Yan Chengyi]

Maybe you can attach a photographs so that we would have a better
understanding. But then again, 1mm is very small. You can probably try
wiping them off and netting them. Are they first spotted after the addition
of new water plants? And they do walk/hop and not float around.. right. You
might want to seek help elsewhere such as the forum at
http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/

"Emil Krey" > wrote in message
...
> That would be interesting to try, but I don't belive my fishes bother
abouth
> them. These bugs realy are small and the fishes doesn't seem to see them,
> and how abouth these on the aquarium glass above watherline, my fishes
> doesn't jump for nothing.
>
> Emil
>
> "Yan Chengyi" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Can't recall the name of the insect. But maybe you would want to remove
> the
> > plant for a while and let the fish enjoy them.
> >
> > "Emil Krey" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of
bugs
> on
> > > top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of
> the
> > > aquarium. It seems like it is not going down into the water, just on
top
> > of
> > > the water. They are abouth 1mm yellow/red or smaller, difficult to see
> > them
> > > wery clear. when I tried to squeese them they just jump away. They can
> > > "walk" on the water.
> > >
> > > Someone got anny qlue what it is, how I can get rid of them ?
> > >
> > > Emil Krey
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

[spun 12]

Emil,

I did a water change today and noticed the same thing in my tank.
Their little white bugs that jump around. I only been growing plants
for about a year now and I've done alot of research but I haven't come
across this situation before. Hopefully someone out there does I will
be wathing your post frequently so maybe someone else may no
something. Basically I just wanted to say youre not alone.

Matt in IL




> I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs on
> top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of the
> aquarium. It seems like it is not going down into the water, just on top of
> the water. They are abouth 1mm yellow/red or smaller, difficult to see them
> wery clear. when I tried to squeese them they just jump away. They can
> "walk" on the water.
>
> Someone got anny qlue what it is, how I can get rid of them ?
>
> Emil Krey

[Mean_Chlorine]

"Emil Krey" > wrote in message >...
> I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs on
> top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of the
> aquarium.

They're springtails, members of the order Collembola, a type of very
primitive wingless insects. Very common. They feed on decaying plant
matter. I'm afraid I have no clever way of getting rid of them

[Donovan N]

Mean_Chlorine wrote:
> "Emil Krey" > wrote in message >...
>
>>I did not notice before, but now it seems like I have some kind of bugs on
>>top of the leves of my floting plant, the same kind is on the glass of the
>>aquarium.
>
>
> They're springtails, members of the order Collembola, a type of very
> primitive wingless insects. Very common. They feed on decaying plant
> matter. I'm afraid I have no clever way of getting rid of them

Sounds crazy but a blowtorch on the low setting (just a lazy yellow
flame). Just run it quickly over the surface of the water. The plants
won't get hurt because they have sutch a high water content. IIRC
springtails don't really hurt anything... aphids on teh other hand ...