What is this? water bug?

[H]-[H]

What is this?? Looks like a small fly with two tiny legs & no wings that can swim in water.. lol
They usually come with the glass shrimp that I buy & I have always wondered what they are...

 

[MonsterMinis]

How does it swim? Looks like either water beetle, or what we use to call " back strokers " Either eat fish fry, if i remember correctly. All over the US. If the shrimp come from florida deffinately one of those depending how it swims.

 

[H]-[H]

It uses it's two tiny legs to stroke in the water.. I'm from Malaysia btw..

 

[Lupin]

Water boatmen. I'd dispose them.

 

[spaulding]

yep, water boatmen

 

[fishy12]

Omfg i got bit by that once. i swear

 

[dingoofus]

Lol, I bought feeder fish once, and it had two of them in with the fish, I didn't feed it to my fish cause I was very cautious.

I think I got bit by one once as well, lol.

 

[likestofish]

Yeah its a boatman and they bite also kill feeders if you leave them together.

 

[krichardson]

Yeah its a boatman and they bite also kill feeders if you leave them together.

Yup its a type of aquatic carnivorous beetle.I was buying gsome feeders last month and there was a nice sized dragonfly larvae in the tank.A customer did not know what it was but wanted to purchase it anyhow but the attendant would not sell it and the two of them almost got into an argument over it.

 

[Lupin]

Yup its a type of aquatic carnivorous beetle.I was buying gsome feeders last month and there was a nice sized dragonfly larvae in the tank.A customer did not know what it was but wanted to purchase it anyhow but the attendant would not sell it and the two of them almost got into an argument over it.

That's silly.lol Customer should know that dragonfly nymph is an ambush predator as well.