What are these in my tank?

[PNWBettas]

So... I was observing my tank earlier and noticed some tiny little things swimming around. This is particularly strange since I just totally broke down the tank and did a massive re-scape. It’s also still cycling from being a dirted tank and I WAS doing it fishless. I think I had some hitchhikers on the plants I bough off another fish keeper, cuz I got something that’s not supposed to be there. Now I’m dealing with around 1ppm ammonia, 0.25 nitrite, and 20+ nitrate. Did a water change and overdosed prime, if their fish I hope they will be ok. Also ordered more BB to try and move it along faster.

sorry the images are bad, they are screenshots from a video I took.

 

[qldmick]

Its some kind of fish fry, almost impossible to tell what, but would be an egg layer from the plants you added.

 

[PNWBettas]

Its some kind of fish fry, almost impossible to tell what, but would be an egg layer from the plants you added.

Hoping I can keep them alive long enough to know what they are. Any suggestions? Besides trying to deal with the cycle issue.

 

[Fae]

Just keep doing water changes every 24hrs to keep ammonia down until you get more bb. Do you have access to seachem stability in store? That's a pretty helpful bb booster. Or a friend or other tank with some cycled media? The fry will be more delicate and sensitive to the spikes in the water so if you really want them to survive, maybe net out as many as you can and keep them in something separate and just do 100% daily wc

 

[PNWBettas]

Just keep doing water changes every 24hrs to keep ammonia down until you get more bb. Do you have access to seachem stability in store? That's a pretty helpful bb booster. Or a friend or other tank with some cycled media? The fry will be more delicate and sensitive to the spikes in the water so if you really want them to survive, maybe net out as many as you can and keep them in something separate and just do 100% daily wc

So my issue here is before I did the re-scape the tank was cycled. I actually finished it less then a week ago. I used the same filter media from when the tank was previously up and running but since I made it a dirted tank, the soil is just leaching ammonia. I was aware this would happen but didn’t care since it was supposed to be fish-less. Basically the old filter media is the reason I have nitrite after only a week. It’s just not enough to handle all the ammonia from the soil. I have 8 other tanks I could pull media from but I’m not sure if I will help a ton, I’ll still give it a try though.

I may head to petco and pick up a little tiny tank (another 5-6 gal or something) and set that up. I can instant cycle with filter media from another tank and not have to deal with the Fish in cycle in a dirted tank.

 

[Fae]

So my issue here is before I did the re-scape the tank was cycled. I actually finished it less then a week ago. I used the same filter media from when the tank was previously up and running but since I made it a dirted tank, the soil is just leaching ammonia. I was aware this would happen but didn’t care since it was supposed to be fish-less. Basically the old filter media is the reason I have nitrite after only a week. It’s just not enough to handle all the ammonia from the soil. I have 8 other tanks I could pull media from but I’m not sure if I will help a ton, I’ll still give it a try though.

I may head to petco and pick up a little tiny tank (another 5-6 gal or something) and set that up. I can instant cycle with filter media from another tank and not have to deal with the Fish in cycle in a dirted tank.

I would do that then if you want to save the fry! Would take a load of stress off of something that's supposed to be fun too (the dirted tank)

 

[PNWBettas]

I would do that then if you want to save the fry! Would take a load of stress off of something that's supposed to be fun too (the dirted tank)

Well I ordered the 6 gal rimless cube! $27, not bad. I’ll pick it up and set it up today. Should be fun! I was told they are likely endlers or guppies from the guy I got the plants from. Makes sense based on their size. Hope I can keep them alive