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Do you have gravel, any kind of substrate in your tank? How big is your tank? Temperature of the water? Filter? Heater?
Do you put food into the tank, and if so, what?

pretty much everything has been discussed, including these buggers.

hopefully, these will answer everything.

http://www.redearslider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1231

http://www.redearslider.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1373

Thanks for replying! I did search the forum before I posted, but I didn't find anything where people said these bugs have wings on some of them. That is why I posted, thinking maybe I have a different kind. The only gravel I have are those medium sized clear fake rocks that you find in some plant vases. My tank that they are in is about 25-30 gallons. I have 2 filters in the tank. I used to feed them in the tank, but now I put then in a different one. They still appear though.

The only bugs that small that I found were the fruit flies, they are a bit bigger than a pin head when adult, but I didn't find any reference to an aquarium infestation.

The only small white fly things I can think of are the ones you get on houseplants. Have you totally cleaned out your tank? You'll need to rinse your filter media really well also, the problem there as I see it is that if you use the tank water to clean it, which is recommended you could be going just reinfesting it. I think I'd risk using clean water to rinse it out... or get totally new media.

Can you post a picture of one?

I wish I could take a picture, but they are too small to even show up.

It could be mosquitos or dragonflies, I remember that at their larvae stage, they live in water and I definitatly know they grow wings. I've seen alot of creepy crawlies around the water of my plants at home. Dunno what they are though.

How old is your food?

Hello

I had this problem. Mine looked almost like tiny worms. I changed my band of pellets, and that cleared it up. They are in the shrimp pellets.

I found out that a friend of mine knows a herpatologist at his pharmacy school. I chased the flys around the tank and got them into a ziplock bag and managed to get some of the little tiny ones without wings in it too. He too it to the professor and he said they are called Moth Flies, also known as Drain Flies. I looked that up on the internet and found tons of sites about them. Reading the information and looking at the pictures, that is exactly what they are. He said they are attracted to the water and the humidity in the tank. Here is one of the websites I found that talks about them.......

http://www.pestproducts.com/mothfly.htm

Apparently, many people have them, not just in their tanks, but they are so small, that many people dont even know they are there. Yuck! I'm just happy that I know what these annoying guys are now. Hopefully this will help solve the bug mystery that other people might be having.[/b]