Red bugs in phytoplankton culture

[ogbounceman]

Anyone know what these are?



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Everytime I harvest I filter the phyto through a filter sock. And they always come back.

 

[Sam7]

can't tell maybe pods?

 

[Subsea]

Red Planaria multiply by splitting apart. What I see are likely rotifers or copepods. Do you have a zooplankton culture near by?

 

[ogbounceman]

I don’t have and pods culture nearby. I do leave the phyto culture near a window for sunlight. Everything is closed air tight. I don’t know how they got in.

 

[ogbounceman]

can't tell maybe pods?

Let me get a better video