Tiny black bugs in enclosure

[Manny]

Hello, I have a GBB sling that is doing very well. Attacks roaches and crickets without issue, has mooted, and is getting larger. Today I noticed tiny little bugs crawling around his enclosure. They don’t seem to be bothering the GBB, but I’ve never seen them before. Any idea what they are and how to get rid of them? I tried snapping a photo, but they are too tiny and too fast. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you

 

[viper69]

Get them out- whatever it takes

 

[Dorifto]

Hello, I have a GBB sling that is doing very well. Attacks roaches and crickets without issue, has mooted, and is getting larger. Today I noticed tiny little bugs crawling around his enclosure. They don’t seem to be bothering the GBB, but I’ve never seen them before. Any idea what they are and how to get rid of them? I tried snapping a photo, but they are too tiny and too fast. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you

Do they fly?

 

[JPG]

If they aren't gnats, I would get them out asap as viper says

 

[Manny]

They don’t fly and I just rehoused the GBB. I tossed everything from the enclosure and bleach cleaned the Amac box. Thank you everyone

 

[Stardust1986]

Hello, I have a GBB sling that is doing very well. Attacks roaches and crickets without issue, has mooted, and is getting larger. Today I noticed tiny little bugs crawling around his enclosure. They don’t seem to be bothering the GBB, but I’ve never seen them before. Any idea what they are and how to get rid of them? I tried snapping a photo, but they are too tiny and too fast. Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. Thank you

I would clean the enclosure and get new substrate, they cant benefit the T

 

[Dorifto]

They don’t fly and I just rehoused the GBB. I tossed everything from the enclosure and bleach cleaned the Amac box. Thank you everyone

Tiny, fast and black? Pinhead crickets? Did you left any cricket for long time?

 

[Manny]

Definitely not pinhead crickets, these buggers were crawling on the walls of the enclosure. They were way too small to be crickets

 

[chanda]

Could they be tiny beetles? Sometimes you get hitchhiking dermestid beetle larvae (those black, fuzzy caterpillar-looking things) in cricket bags. They serve as cleaners for the cricket breeders, eating dead crickets, molts, etc. If they get into your enclosure along with the crickets, they can pupate into adult beetles (tiny and black) - and can easily survive on the leftovers in the tarantula tank. If you get more than one, they will also start breeding - and they can breed fast!

They're generally pretty harmless - I use them as cleaners in the tanks with some of my assassin bugs - but I wouldn't trust 'em with a molting T.

 

[YungRasputin]

pix please - am most curious about this - either way i would echo others and say get them out pronto!

 

[Manny]

Thank you for all the replies. I haven’t thought of them being tiny beetles, they very well could be. It actually makes sense because they seemed to ignore the T completely, however they must of been surviving off of something in there. Hence “cleaner” beetles may be it. I did try to snap some photos but they were too small and too fast. They were zipping and climbing all over the walls of the enclosure. I did get the T out, it’s enjoying a bit of an upgrade size wise so it all worked out in the end. I bleach cleaned the original enclosure and won’t be using it anytime soon. Again, thank you for all the feedback people, it is greatly appreciated. Thank you kindly, Manny
PS I will update the thread if they pop up again.