Funny critters on the glass

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heather

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hello everyone,

heres the deal- ive got these funny little critters scurrying around on my glass and i was wondering what in the world they are!!

they are uber small
they jump around
it looks like they have antenae or whiskers on their heads
they also have two strands coming off their butt ends and some of them have what appears to be eggsacks on the strands

i cant get a picture because theyre so small

they remind me of fleas..
 
are they Y shaped? and they swim with the forked end in little jerky movements?
 
they swim in jerky movements theyre sort of Y shaped, its hard to describe..
 
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heres a drawing,dont laugh at it
the arrow show they direction they move in
 
oh, i wasnt worried about em, i actually think theyre cute!
i was just wondering what to call them...

and yeah, that one photo with the red critter, mine look like that, only they are white and dont have that extra tail thing like you said

and i know for a fact that they arent mosquito larvae, cuz i ve had those in tmy tank before too, as well as a dragonfly larva

all of which were eaten by my vicious axies...

thanks Sharn
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Hey my old tank had those too! Mine are also white and they jump around and are funny. I just thought they were harmless. When I watched them they did their best to avoid my Axolotls, I guess to avoid being squashed lol. So I figured they were harmless
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I wonder if I will get any in my new big tank.
 
cyclops I think they're called.

I had them in my old tank.

The 2 bumps on your drawing are their egg sacks.

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