Not all visitors are welcome. Hydra, planaria, aiptasia, mantis shrimp – they sneak in on plants or rocks. This section helps you identify them and get rid of them using traps, chemicals, or natural predators.
Mosquito larvae are small (0.04–0.4 inches / 1-10mm), translucent, and hang upside down from the water surface to breathe. They move with a characteristic jerking “S” shape when disturbed. Unlike tadpoles (which are dark, oval, and swim continuously), mosquito larvae have a clearly visible head
Freshwater limpets (genus Acroluxus) are common visitors in our tanks. Some people absolutely hate these tiny critters with a huge passion while others do not mind having them as additional clean up crew or even live food. Freshwater limpets are harmless scavengers that help freshwater
Those tiny white threads wriggling in your substrate or on the glass? Detritus worms. They are 100% harmless to shrimp, fish, and snails — just ugly. They only explode in numbers when you overfeed, skip water changes, or let mulm pile up. Here’s what they
Scuds (or side-swimmers) are small shrimp-like invertebrates belonging to the family Gammaridae. The choice of keeping or eradicating them in shrimp, fish, or planted tanks has been a popular controversial topic on online forums, and Facebook groups over the years. On the one hand, these
Unfortunately, shrimp keeping hobby is not always sunshine and rainbows. So, today I am going to continue my series of articles on dwarf shrimp diseases and parasites. This time it is a relatively new problem that came to use from the Asia aquaculture ponds –
The choice of keeping or eradicating Medusa worms in reef tanks has been a popular controversial topic on online reefkeeping forums over the years. To put it in a nutshell, on the one hand, Medusa worms are harmless scavengers that help the reef aquarium keep
Aiptasia (glass anemone) is a small, translucent brown anemone that grows up to 2.5–3 inches (5–7 cm). It’s an invasive saltwater pest because it stings corals and reproduces by cloning itself—even a single cell can grow into a new polyp. Under lab conditions, one Aiptasia