Not sure if this is the correct forum, apologies if not.
I was doing my weekly water change etc. today after a few days of not really doing much with the tank. When I took out the first jug of water from gravel vacuuming, I saw loads of tiny white/clear bugs (maybe a mm or so)?
After going back to the tank and looking I started to see lots of them - mainly on the dwarf sag, with a few on the glass. They are very small, relatively fast-moving and mostly on the plants and (it seems) the gravel - since lots of them came up when gravel vaccing too.
I assume they came in on the plants as the dwarf sag was planted recently and I did have a small few pest snails after that (But not an explosion of them). I'm not sure if it's relevant/related, but over the last 2-3 days the water did go slightly cloudy (like a mild bacterial bloom) and was crystal clear again today.
My main concern is whether they pose any risk to the other inhabitants of the tank (nerite snails, amano shrimp, neon tetra, plants), and then whether there is anything I can get to kill them that won't harm the fish/shrimp/snails? Or any other good way to get rid of them?
Due to their small size (and the fact I didn't think of it before the water change) it was hard to get a video/photo of any so I could only get one video which isn't great - you can see it for a few seconds scurrying off to the side. It's about halfway up between the nerite snail and the eggs above it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oqZzc1W33oK9zG1OShg2ZxYJq7l0e3pN/view?usp=sharing
I was doing my weekly water change etc. today after a few days of not really doing much with the tank. When I took out the first jug of water from gravel vacuuming, I saw loads of tiny white/clear bugs (maybe a mm or so)?
After going back to the tank and looking I started to see lots of them - mainly on the dwarf sag, with a few on the glass. They are very small, relatively fast-moving and mostly on the plants and (it seems) the gravel - since lots of them came up when gravel vaccing too.
I assume they came in on the plants as the dwarf sag was planted recently and I did have a small few pest snails after that (But not an explosion of them). I'm not sure if it's relevant/related, but over the last 2-3 days the water did go slightly cloudy (like a mild bacterial bloom) and was crystal clear again today.
My main concern is whether they pose any risk to the other inhabitants of the tank (nerite snails, amano shrimp, neon tetra, plants), and then whether there is anything I can get to kill them that won't harm the fish/shrimp/snails? Or any other good way to get rid of them?
Due to their small size (and the fact I didn't think of it before the water change) it was hard to get a video/photo of any so I could only get one video which isn't great - you can see it for a few seconds scurrying off to the side. It's about halfway up between the nerite snail and the eggs above it. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oqZzc1W33oK9zG1OShg2ZxYJq7l0e3pN/view?usp=sharing