Copepods

Jul 18, 2011
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Around 3 days ago I saw copepods in my 2.5G. Gross. I can't kill them with copper medications, because I have RCS in the tank, so the only option is to get fish to eat the copepods. The question is what fish will?

White Clouds? Endlers? I have 3 boraras merah in the tank but none of them are interested.:mad:
 

Kiara1125

Superstar Fish
Jan 12, 2011
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Copepods won't hurt your aquarium or your shrimp. If you let them colonize there, they only eat a little bit of algae and you can siphon them out to feed to other fish. Practically any fish well eat these little buggers. Idk if I have any, never saw them before, but I heard that a lot of people may have them without realizing it.

My source: http://www.aquariumdomain.com/viewArticle.php?article_id=14
 

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Jul 18, 2011
291
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Copepods won't hurt your aquarium or your shrimp. If you let them colonize there, they only eat a little bit of algae and you can siphon them out to feed to other fish. Practically any fish well eat these little buggers. Idk if I have any, never saw them before, but I heard that a lot of people may have them without realizing it.

My source: http://www.aquariumdomain.com/viewArticle.php?article_id=14
I'm not concerned about the copepods harming anything; I just dont like the idea of lice looking things in my tank. I may move my male endlers to the 2.5G.