There are tiny white dots jittering around on my tank walls

[Freddy Newandyke]

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After doing a routine inspection on my arowana tank, I suddenly noticed a lot of these white dot like organisms that are moving around in a jittery motion throughout the aquarium glass walls. If you look closely you can see that they have tail like structures and what appears to be two antennas. There’s so much that they’re covering up all the walls. Will these be harmful to my arowana? How do I get rid of them? I added some aquarium salt. I added a pic.

Thanks

 

[tlindsey]

View attachment 1281187 Hello

After doing a routine inspection on my arowana tank, I suddenly noticed a lot of these white dot like organisms that are moving around in a jittery motion throughout the aquarium glass walls. If you look closely you can see that they have tail like structures and what appears to be two antennas. There’s so much that they’re covering up all the walls. Will these be harmful to my arowana? How do I get rid of them? I added some aquarium salt. I added a pic.

Thanks

freshwater Coepods from the description they are probably Cyclops not a threat to your Aro.

 

[Freddy Newandyke]

freshwater Coepods from the description they are probably Cyclops not a threat to your Aro.

Will these guys stay in my aquarium forever? There’s so many to the point where it’s starting to affect the viewing experience of the tank

 

[tlindsey]

Will these guys stay in my aquarium forever? There’s so many to the point where it’s starting to affect the viewing experience of the tank

How often do you do water changes and gravel vac? This will help decrease the population. The other option would be to break down the aquarium and rinse off the substrate and ornaments and cleaning the filter completely but you will be cycling your aquarium all over again. They may have something available to kill them hopefully without jeopardizing your bio in your filter but I don't know Tbh. I have had them in my aquarium but not to the point I couldn't view my fish also had small fish that would feed off of them.