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okay please help me i need an immediate response as i have prize guppies… i have 4 fancy guppies in a 20gal. i have some live plants but most diesd. a few months ago i realised something in my tank. it looked so small i could barely spot it. it was like a whitish-clearish worm less than a millimeter thick and about a quater of a cm long. i didn’t know what todo so i left it. ju8st not i was cleaning my plants in my tank, jsut brushing over them with my fingers. i found something- it’s not a fish- it’s greenish brownish. six lets. long, slender body. swims like a khulie loach, but also walks with legs. i don’t think it can survive out of water. at the end of its body it hasthe spines that work like a tail fin when it swims. it has two tiny antennna things, very very short. it has like a shell thing that goes half way down its body and then goes into a long thin stick like tail. it has tiny little spikes on the tail half. it is approx 1.5cm long. more in details….
it has eyes like a grasshoppers. please help me im panicing i want my fish to be safe one is about to drop her fry i want them to be healthy. PLEASE help me its urgent what is this?!?
i have already separated it i will take it to my pet shop 1st thing after school tomorrow. it is the only one i can see in my tank. it sounds like anchor worms, but this aint no worm! i can’t see anything on my fish. they do rub up against things like my fake anemone but this is not constant
you know what, i think this might just be a developing dragon/damselfly! i am about to set up a separate 8 gallon tank and put him in there. he’s not doing too well (2 days with no food or anything, but i have just put in a stem of elodea…) but i will try to keep him alive for now. i will grab some more live plant tomorrow for him to munch on. or trim some of mine. i haven’t got a spare filter or airator though… or even gravel… but anyways. if he lives (and is actually a dragonfly or damselfly) i will take him down to the creek about half an hour/hour away, if i can (no transport, lol). either way, i will be quarantining my plants in the future!

i have three mollys, one platy, and two catfish in my freshwater aquarium. I use purified tap water when i clean their tank, and decorations include some real coral and shells, but i think everything in there is either fake or from the ocean. Today i noticed a bunch of tiny little bean shaped animals at the bottom of the tank, and since my mollys and platy have already had babies that look nothing like these bean things, i figured it was catfish babies. Looking closer, the animals are clear, with what looks like a bean shape shell, and they move around using legs at one side of their shell. I tried to take a picture, but my camera couldn’t focus in enough, so i’ll just say they are about a millimeter long, and i can see their organs through their bodies and shells. They look kind of like clams, but i doubt i would have clams appear in my tank, since they would have to come from a parent clam, which i have never had, What the hell are these things and are they going to harm my fish?