How do I get damselfly nymphs out of my tank

[Hybridfish7]

I have a full tank shot, just not one with her in it


The tank's sunlit in the day time, I'll get a picture in the morning tomorrow when it looks better

 

[jjohnwm]

Your tank is pretty unkempt; wild and sloppy-looking...which is to say that I love it! Nature is never manicured, and nobody is out there trimming off imperfect leaves and scrubbing algae off rocks. The natural look is beautiful.

Damselfly larvae are similar to dragonfly nymphs, but much smaller and daintier. Even at their largest they will only pick off very small fish, but in any case it's unlikely you have a very large number of them. They're not like snails, hydra or other "pest" invertebrates that will breed uncontrolled in your aquarium. Whatever quantity you brought in is all you will have, and the trimac should polish them off pretty quickly.

Good luck, hopefully you will update more pics as the tank progresses.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Damselfly larvae are similar to dragonfly nymphs, but much smaller and daintier. Even at their largest they will only pick off very small fish, but in any case it's unlikely you have a very large number of them. They're not like snails, hydra or other "pest" invertebrates that will breed uncontrolled in your aquarium. Whatever quantity you brought in is all you will have

You gave me an idea. What if someone made an enclosed terrium on top of a fish tank and had a whole ecosystem going where the damselflies continuously lay their eggs and whatnot so there are constantly the little nymphs in the tank. It would be quite interesting, at least on paper. I haven’t thought it out beyond “this is a cool idea”.

Your tank is pretty unkempt; wild and sloppy-looking...which is to say that I love it! Nature is never manicured, and nobody is out there trimming off imperfect leaves and scrubbing algae off rocks. The natural look is beautiful.

I love your opinion and highly agree with it, a wild messy look is beautiful. I also think a perfectly maintained tank is beautiful too, both ends of the spectrum have their own beauty to me.

 

[duanes]

I had a fry tank I added plants from my pond to, soon after added the plants the 1" fry started disappearing a few at a time, I finally discovered the culprit, very well camouflaged in the plants.


A few seconds after this pic was taken, it was dropped in an adult cichlid tank and was immediately eaten.

 

[Hybridfish7]

You gave me an idea. What if someone made an enclosed terrium on top of a fish tank and had a whole ecosystem going where the damselflies continuously lay their eggs and whatnot so there are constantly the little nymphs in the tank. It would be quite interesting, at least on paper. I haven’t thought it out beyond “this is a cool idea”.

Damselflies lay ALOT of eggs, I think the rate of death of fish in that tank would be too high for there to be a stable population of whatever you're keeping in there unless it's something bigger and predatory. As a result there'd be dieoffs of nymphs and the like. It's a good idea on paper but practically you'd either need something extremely large or it won't work. However my 20 tall does have its own ecosystem going, all the fish in there reproduce (and eat eachother'e fry), some sort of small flying insect flies in to reproduce and gets eaten by the fish, cycle repeats with the bugs once their next generation metamorphoses, and of course there's little microfauna type things like seed shrimp and the like in there.

 

[Hybridfish7]

Your tank is pretty unkempt; wild and sloppy-looking...which is to say that I love it! Nature is never manicured, and nobody is out there trimming off imperfect leaves and scrubbing algae off rocks. The natural look is beautiful.

Damselfly larvae are similar to dragonfly nymphs, but much smaller and daintier. Even at their largest they will only pick off very small fish, but in any case it's unlikely you have a very large number of them. They're not like snails, hydra or other "pest" invertebrates that will breed uncontrolled in your aquarium. Whatever quantity you brought in is all you will have, and the trimac should polish them off pretty quickly.

Good luck, hopefully you will update more pics as the tank progresses.

Yes indeed I will definitely update the tank as it progresses. I'm getting a big shipment of fish for the tank this week so be on the lookout for a post about that.
For now here it is in its sun lit glory, the vals aren't at their best though because I drained the tank to replant it and they still haven't recovered.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Damselflies lay ALOT of eggs, I think the rate of death of fish in that tank would be too high for there to be a stable population of whatever you're keeping in there unless it's something bigger and predatory. As a result there'd be dieoffs of nymphs and the like. It's a good idea on paper but practically you'd either need something extremely large or it won't work. However my 20 tall does have its own ecosystem going, all the fish in there reproduce (and eat eachother'e fry), some sort of small flying insect flies in to reproduce and gets eaten by the fish, cycle repeats with the bugs once their next generation metamorphoses, and of course there's little microfauna type things like seed shrimp and the like in there.

I was thinking more along the lines of no fish, only a lot of a large colony of shrimp.