Another "What's this?"

Steve Jones · May 8, 2016

They are hard to see in this video, but we spotted them yesterday. They look like tiny fleas scurrying about on the rock. There are dozens of them on just one area of rock. Are these some stage of the bristleworm? Or are they something else?

Duke4Life · May 8, 2016

Baby Ray · May 8, 2016

Defiantly pods.

Steve Jones · May 8, 2016

I'm still a newbie to this. Pods? Good? Bad? Neutral?

Duke4Life · May 8, 2016

Good thing!

Robink · May 8, 2016

Baby Ray · May 8, 2016

Pods are kind of like underwater bugs. They are very healthy fish food and will breed like crazy in a stable aquarium. They are kind of like a mini clean up crew

Baby Ray · May 8, 2016

There are also many different types of pods
tibse copepods
tigger copepods
amphipods
isopods
There are many more

Steve Jones · May 8, 2016

Ok. Cool. My Biocube is in the the process of 76 days going fallow after a Brooks breakout so there's not many nutrients in there except for a little bit that I add for the corals.

Duke4Life · May 8, 2016

Steve what part of KY?

Steve Jones · May 8, 2016

Near Bowling Green.

Duke4Life · May 8, 2016

Steve Jones said:
Near Bowling Green.

Disc golf courses galore

Maritimer · May 8, 2016

Yours look a lot like mine - I think they're "munnid", but they're definitely isopods. Cousins to the sow bugs and roly-polies in your garden, and to the football-sized giant isopods of the deep sea, these guys will clean up tiny detritus and provide food for everything from dragonets to wrasses.

Nice to have around!

~Bruce

Baby Ray · May 8, 2016

Maritimer said:
Yours look a lot like mine - I think they're "munnid", but they're definitely isopods. Cousins to the sow bugs and roly-polies in your garden, and to the football-sized giant isopods of the deep sea, these guys will clean up tiny detritus and provide food for everything from dragonets to wrasses.

Nice to have around!

~Bruce

Exactly!!!!