"noah body" wrote in message
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I have had these small greenish looking bugs all over the underside of
my light canopy for years now, well since I brought home water plants. I
have gotten rid of the plants because I did not have time to clean the
filters because of my job sending me all over the country. . . anyway's
now
that I have purchased a good quality digital camera with macro, I have
just
taken a pic of the bugs walking over a piece of half submerged wood stick
in
the tank, and also have taken a high quality macro video of the bugs
moving.
Could someone please tell me what they are and more importantly, could
someone also tell me if they are harmful to the fish in anyway. I
explained
this story to the local fish store but all he said was that it's a sign of
a
great ecosystem in my tank. . . maybe.
For someone to answer this question I don't think that I should have
to
explain the total setup of my tank, except to say that it is an
established
80 gallon freshwater community tank that gets overfed cause I still can't
quite figure out if I'm giving my guys enough food.
I know enough to NOT post pictures here so could someone please send
me
their email address so that I could send you the pics or/and the video of
the bugs in/on my tank. Actually I'm quite happy with the quality of the
pics because you can actually count the legs on these bugs that seem to be
a
couple of mil's in length. . . PS: The pics were taken at 5.1 megapixel,
so
the file is like 2.5 meg to download.

Charlie
Nova Scotia, Canada




Post the pictures on alt.binaries.aquaria