Damsel flys and Newts?

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Hello all! I had quite a shocker this morning when I woke up and saw one of these bad boys crawling around in my tank. After a little research I've come to the conclusion that it's a damsel fly larvae, which I'm going to say came from the plants I got from someone. I don't mind it being there, I love dragonflies and damselflies, but should I get rid of him? Will he effect the health of my newts (cynops. O) and guppies?
 

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It should be fine. Damsel fly larvae will eat salamander larvae. Dragon fly larvae will eat small larvae and probably small newts. I found some damsel fly larvae this morning while getting daphnia in my back yard. I tossed them out because the daphnia was going in with newly hatched newt larvae.
 
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fire_newt said:
Hello all! I had quite a shocker this morning when I woke up and saw one of these bad boys crawling around in my tank. After a little research I've come to the conclusion that it's a damsel fly larvae, which I'm going to say came from the plants I got from someone. I don't mind it being there, I love dragonflies and damselflies, but should I get rid of him? Will he effect the health of my newts (cynops. O) and guppies?
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If you like them and feed live foods to your newts, you can place the larva in a jar of fish bowl with a stick poking out of the water and raise it up until it emerges. It is a cool thing to try on occasion.

Mike covered it pretty well.

Ed
 
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