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What’s wrong with my sea monkeys?

okay, i opened the pack of water conditioner that came with the kit and i dropped it nd it went EVERYWHERE. so i vacumed it up nd put a little stress coat in the water instead. then i added the eggs 4 hrs. later…………….i put the eggs in nd stirred a little. Now there is no more on the bottom. There are the little black thing (looks EXACTLY like black pepper) floating around nd some white things. r those the sea monkeys? b/c i looked in the magnifying glass nd they just look like dots nd they don’t move. was my hatching attempt unsuccessful? should i get another pack nd do it right? r the sea monkeys dead? what should i do?

What’s wrong with my sea monkeys?

okay, i opened the pack of water conditioner that came with the kit and i dropped it nd it went EVERYWHERE. so i vacumed it up nd put a little stress coat in the water instead. then i added the eggs 4 hrs. later…………….i put the eggs in nd stirred a little. Now there is no more on the bottom. There are the little black thing (looks EXACTLY like black pepper) floating around nd some white things. r those the sea monkeys? b/c i looked in the magnifying glass nd they just look like dots nd they don’t move. was my hatching attempt unsuccessful? should i get another pack nd do it right? r the sea monkeys dead? what should i do?

What are these weird things swimming in my fresh water tank? Part 2?

I posted a question a few days ago about my angelfish (marble angels) and I said they had laid eggs and now all of the eggs are gone (they ate them) none hatched. Well there are these weird off white “things” alive and swimming around in my tank. At first they looked like lice? They are so tiny its hard to really tell what they are even with a magnifying glass. Well now they are taking the form of something that looks like a tiny tiny inch worm. (Again, very hard to tell even with a magnifying glass) They are crawling around on the glass, and the other form (looks like lice) swim around in the tank. One person said maybe it is a “Hydra”? i’m not sure since its hard to tell what these things in my tank look like. If they are Hydra, I thought someone said you had to have brine shrimp to cause this and I dont have any. ANY THOUGHTS WOULD BE HELPFUL.. Other than that I’m gonna try to kill the beasties before something happens to my fish who seem clueless.