HELP HELP!!! Dragonfly nymph!!!

[Animallover😍]

I saw a dragonfly nymph in the community tank today. I heard that they are predatory and I need to get it out of there ASAP.
It has plenty of places to hide, how can I get it out!!! Also HOW did it get in there?? The tank has a cover. Did it get it while I was trimming the plants and a dragonfly laid eggs on the plant? How do I get rid of it??? Any help would be very much appreciated.

 

[Sgooosh]

I saw a dragonfly nymph in the community tank today. I heard that they are predatory and I need to get it out of there ASAP.
It has plenty of places to hide, how can I get it out!!! Also HOW did it get in there?? The tank has a cover. Did it get it while I was trimming the plants and a dragonfly laid eggs on the plant? How do I get rid of it??? Any help would be very much appreciated.

what fish do you have, i think it attacks smaller fish
put a piece of food or something as bait so you can release it to a pond or something

 

[Animallover😍]

what fish do you have, i think it attacks smaller fish
put a piece of food or something as bait so you can release it to a pond or something

Rummynose Tetras and Black neon tetras. They are all quite big, what a relief. Ok I'll do that.

 

[Sgooosh]

Rummynose Tetras and Black neon tetras. They are all quite big, what a relief. Ok I'll do that.

but during night, tetras are in danger!
i am not very experienced but bait usually helps

 

[Animallover😍]

but during night, tetras are in danger!
i am not very experienced but bait usually helps

Oh No!!!! what do I use as bait?

 

[Animallover😍]

I have only a a few bunches of plants in the aquarium. Could I use this method?

• Salt method​

Most newly acquired plants you can dip in a saltwater solution for 20-30 seconds to kill/remove nymphs (1 cup of salt to 1 gallon / 3.8 liters of water).

 

[Colin_T]

They come in on plants.

Use a fish net to go through the plants and scoop it out.

Unless the nymph is quite a bit bigger than the fish, it won't bother them. In fact most fish eat the nymphs.

 

[Animallover😍]

They come in on plants.

Use a fish net to go through the plants and scoop it out.

Unless the nymph is quite a bit bigger than the fish, it won't bother them. In fact most fish eat the nymphs.

Ok so I took out some of the bunches of plants and was looking through them and on taking out the third bunch, I saw something dead floating up to the surface. Phew. A small dragonfly nymph. On the floor of the aquarium, right where I had taken out the bunch, was the dragonfly nymph I'd seen this morning, RIGHT WHERE my pregnant black neon tetra was with the males when they were rubbing against her. Maybe he was eating the eggs. I quickly brought the net and put it in the tank, he JUMPED into it! Yay! I'm putting him in the nearest pond. I wanted to keep him, but I don't have anything to feed him.

 

[Donya]

put a piece of food or something as bait so you can release it to a pond or something

Please don't release hitchhikers into local waters unless the tank is exclusively made of local fauna. If you don't know where an organism came from, you don't know what else it could be carrying that might be detrimental to the environment (diseases, microbes, etc.).

 

[Sgooosh]

Oh No!!!! what do I use as bait?

some fish food?

 

[Sgooosh]

Ok so I took out some of the bunches of plants and was looking through them and on taking out the third bunch, I saw something dead floating up to the surface. Phew. A small dragonfly nymph. On the floor of the aquarium, right where I had taken out the bunch, was the dragonfly nymph I'd seen this morning, RIGHT WHERE my pregnant black neon tetra was with the males when they were rubbing against her. Maybe he was eating the eggs. I quickly brought the net and put it in the tank, he JUMPED into it! Yay! I'm putting him in the nearest pond. I wanted to keep him, but I don't have anything to feed him.
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i think he will eat brine shrimp? or blood worms? or other little feeder shrimps and stuff
he would like a lot of plants and some substrate! wild animals are pretty tricky though
he's a very cute little guy

 

[Animallover😍]

Please don't release hitchhikers into local waters unless the tank is exclusively made of local fauna. If you don't know where an organism came from, you don't know what else it could be carrying that might be detrimental to the environment (diseases, microbes, etc.).

Oof I already let him go.

 

[Animallover😍]

i think he will eat brine shrimp? or blood worms? or other little feeder shrimps and stuff
he would like a lot of plants and some substrate! wild animals are pretty tricky though
he's a very cute little guy

Yeah super cute! But I didn't get to keep him unfortunately

 

[Sgooosh]

Oof I already let him go.

it is likely it came from the place you let it go... at least i hope cos dragonflies can fly...