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Began to see these popping up in my Shrimp Bonsai Scape, anybody know what they’re?
Began to see these popping up in my Shrimp Bonsai Scape, anybody know what they’re?
https://reddit.com/r/Aquariums/feedback/u82pxt/started_to_see_these_popping_up_in_my_shrimp/
urquhartc91 
That‘s disgusting. It looks like a larvae, probably from a midge. Are there many and are your shrimp okay. You can treat it like hydras. Squish it or get a larger fish with a big appetit. You should get a flytrap and/or a lid. Shrimp are quite resistant to these usually but shrimplets are just too small.
Tanks a 30L. Parameters: Ammonia 0, Nitrites 0, Nitrates 12-15. pH 7.5. TDS 250. Dwarf hair grass carpet, various mosses. Suspecting they were hitch hikers on the last batch of moss from the LFS, everything else was in vitro.
So sorry a fellow fish keeper had to deal with this. I had a large spider fall in my tank once and tried but couldn’t touch it for 10 minutes. If it is a persisting problem you will have to remove the shrimp and do a big clean or (do your own research on this first) get a hungry carnivorous fish, black skirt tetra, swordtails, gobies.