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Jess,

Thanks for posting your pictures. The creatures in question look like cyclops, a freshwater copepod, to me. Your water quality most be great as they are rarely live in tanks with poor water conditions.

Duane

Looks like a damselfly nymph to me.

I raise killifish fry, until they get too large, in my RCS tanks. The shrimp ignore the fry and do a wonderful job of cleaning up uneaten baby brine shrimp. Both these tanks also have large quantites of java moss and floating watersprite to maintain water quality between water changes.

Thank you for the suggestion. I use dechlor, but am concerned about the increase in activity. Maybe it is just normal behavior. I'll try the aged water just in case .

I have been lurking in this wonderful forum for about a month now. In February I received my first juvenile Red Cherry Shrimp. Several weeks ago I purchased another small group of juveniles. My oldest group are now mature and the three females have become ovigerous during the past week! All the shri...