Amohipods / Bug Explosion?

[josh515025]

So my display tank is fishless as I’m doing fallow, but today I noticed a bunch of small bugs running around the rock work! Like dozens of them, some tiny some a bit larger. I managed to get a pic of a couple against the glass... my first guess was peppermint shrimp fry but they are very fast moving and gray. Some type of pod?

 

[Flippers4pups]

Amphipods

 

[josh515025]

Thanks! Didn’t realize they got that large. I was kind of freaking out but I guess since my display is fallow they don’t have any predators at the moment

 

[Flippers4pups]

Thanks! Didn’t realize they got that large. I was kind of freaking out but I guess since my display is fallow they don’t have any predators at the moment

Adult's get good size near a 1/4" long. They're good guys to have!

 

[josh515025]

I still have a good month before I add fish back to my display... any problem with them overrunning tank? I only have a couple softies and 3 shrimp 3 hermits 8 snails in my display currently.

 

[Flippers4pups]

I still have a good month before I add fish back to my display... any problem with them overrunning tank? I only have a couple softies and 3 shrimp 3 hermits 8 snails in my display currently.

More the merrier. Very good clean up crew. Depending on the fish you keep, wrasses will decimate them.

They pose no harm to anything.

 

[josh515025]

Cool thanks a lot for the help!!

 

[Flippers4pups]

Cool thanks a lot for the help!!

Your welcome!

Side note: yes I'm a little OCD. I pick them out of my socks when I change them to save them. I put them back into my sump. Lol

 

[KJ]

Amphipod Gammarid.