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Strange flecks in tank

Goldeen86

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Does anyone know what these are? They don't move but just appeared 2 days ago and yesterday I did a 50 percent water change, syphoned these out and they're back. In the tank are 2 small axolotls and a few red cherry shrimp, I have live java moss and another few live plants in the tank. These little things that appeared are about 1mm and look like sprinkles for ice cream. I do maintenance a lot throughout the day so it's a pretty clean tank.
 

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I wouldn't worry too much about it, it just looks like shrimp poop to me. It doesn't really add much, if any ammonia to the tank, but it can seem like the shrimp are constantly pooping.
 
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Thank you, I always assumed shrimp waste was dark In colour, there's so much of it, I had no idea they pooped this much.
 
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