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I am feeding 7 day old baby Oscar fry fresh hatched brine shrimp. While watching them feed I see several squirming things swimming among the fry. They are smaller, but at first glance look like very small fry. They are much bigger than the brine shrimp. I can see them a little better with a magnifying glass. After being removed from the tank they appear more “wormy” either dark green or black. I have tried to Google images but got no where. I yanked ‘em out and put ‘em in a jar with their own brine shrimp…thought maybe if they survive I could identify them better. Any ideas? parasite, larvae??? Wonder if I’m introducing them along with the brine shrimp or if they were there and I’m just now noticing…eeewww!
Well, I am kinda ruling out fish lice.Looked at a couple sites…not relating much. Much more wormy looking, and squiggles at the top of the water. These things are definitely visible but small enough to not get a lot of detail. I don’t see any legs but the body seems a bit like the dragonfly body…thing is I am in the middle of the suburbs no water sources other than my tank and spring hasn’t really hit here. hmmm. My adults seem perfectly healthy, no signs of any ailments. No problems until I put in the brine shrimp but may not have a thing to do with it. Just don’t want to have some nasty stuff in the tank.
Okay, maybe we’re on to something here. The Midge thing seems to fit. I am seeing a few of those flying insects…the larvae is about as long as they are!..So everything should be cool?http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/biodiversity/invert/midges.html

I have a pair of 7-8 year old Oscars. They have their second batch of successfully hatched fry (free swimming for a day now.) The first batch has one surviver that is in it’s own tank. I know that I could remove them from their parents for a bigger # to survive but as a hobbyist, I have little resources of “takers” when the fry are big enough. I need suggestions with good filtration without sucking up the babies…I have tried panty hose on the end of my bio-filter tube but that doesn’t prevent fry from getting stuck to it. I also could use good suggestions for feeding them. I use brine shrimp and have used crushed flakes. With them in a big tank..how can I ensure they are finding the food?

my fish eating brine shrimp, just added the electric blue and the other fish are about a month old now.

3 1/2 yr old Tiger Oscar, 8″ from tip to tip, living alone in 40 gal tank. Water slightly acidic and hard. Partial water changes done about 6gal every two weeks. Undergravel filter w/ powerhead and Aquaclear 300 outside filter. Fed Hikari brand Oscar tablets, occasional frozen bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp. He gets live feeder goldfish every now and then, but only after they’ve been quarantined for at least a week.

Recently Oscar has developed symmetric pock marks about the size of a BB and grayish-white in color about 1/16 ” apart around his whole jaw (from one side of face to other.) Doesn’t seem to be in any discomfort, and he eats well, but the marks resemble the “hole in the head disease” from the ’80′s. But I believe that was parasitic and was generally one lesion only.

Does anyone think I should be concerned?

BTW…I’ve had freshwater tropicals all my life; have successfully bred angels and have kept many happy, healthy discus; so I’m not a noob.
Detail…now I’m kicking myself for not Googling ‘hole in the head disease’, but it was just a wild stab; I didn’t think it happened anymore. But that’s almost certainly what he has after seeing the pictures. Damn I hope I can save him.

If you return here, please tell me what you can about the carbon affect…I rinse it occasionally but change it even more less. Thanks.

Thanks Copperhead. 11 points ASAP.
Edit 2: That comment about the carbon should have read “less often,” but apparently you can’t fix additional details once you hit submit.

Water quality was bad but after numerous water chanmges and a few changing of things it is almost perfect now, but he is still sick. I was feeding him only cichlid sticks, but now I am feeding him bloodworms some other kind of tropical fish food, and he occasionally gets a few brine shrimp when I am feeding the other fish. Please help me, if he does not get better soon, I will have to give him to the pet store.