Are those Monti eating BBugs?

[mmoner]

Red digitatas were not giving PE for weeks, soon they started to pale away. Checked everything including; kH flucs, K but no progress. All other SPS are fine, lots of PE in low nutrient system.

With no nudis in e 2 months old tank decided to do a harsh revive dip. All of a sudden tons of those bugs started to fall off and die in 15 minutes.

Researched some and saw very impressive threads about those bugs.

Just want to be sure if they are the ones in pics below taken by a scope.

Thanks,

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Do you have a healthy refugium? Those almost look like copepods, which are a good thing.

 

[mmoner]

No refugium but a back sump...They look like Tegastids more than useful spicies from my side. These are like a dust specs to the human eye.

Also Montis after first dip showed some weak PE today.

 

[mmoner]

My case...should help ID

 

[mmoner]

Well i just made a second Revive dip on the sick Monti, Sthylo,Seriatopora Spicies as well as other Zoa and Fungia in the tank. No Tegastids this time but some other pods were there.

One is clearly an amphipod and the other is a isopod maybe?

 

[Hemmdog]

One looks kinda like a idoteid isopod, others look like amphipods to me. I’m far from a marine biologist though.

 

[ZaneTer]

That’s not an isopod in my opinion. It’s only the front section of an amphipod. White from decay.

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

I don’t see a problem here