Bugs on glass?

[aceer15]

I've started seeing hundreds of bugs on my glass lately. Ocassionally I will find some with a double abdomen; they are too small to get a pic of. Any ideas?

 

[aceer15]

Found a magnifier to show the bugs, notice some have two abdomens.

 

[aceer15]

bump, would like some experts to weigh in here:bump2:

 

[ritter6788]

Copepods.

 

[Intricateart]

Congratulations on breeding copepods! To celebrate, buy a pair of mandarins

 

[TJ's Reef]

Anytime I set up my frag tank and move corals with LR or tiles attached over I get a population explosion in tank without any predators present. I always want to rescue Dragonettes or Pipefish during these.

Cheers, Todd

 

[aceer15]

Thank you all for easing my mind about them! Just wanted to make sure they wernt predators. I have a mandarin right now but he usually won't go up high enough on the glass to eat these guys. Will scraping them off the glass get them down to the lower part of the tank for the mandarin?

 

[NanaReefer]

Your Mandarin will find them no matter where they are

 

[aceer15]

That's what I like to hear! Thanks for the encouraging words

 

[NanaReefer]

Your welcome! An if you wanna give your pods a nutritious boost add a lil phytoplankton every now and then. Just use it sparingly.

 

[aceer15]

I'll make sure to do that if it looks like the population starts being eaten off

 

[aflipfly]

I am very glad to see this post. I had the same question, but in addition to seeing come with double abdomens some seem to have long sweepers on one end. Is that also a characteristic of a copepods?

 

[puffermike]

Amphipods are another "bug" you'll find haha.

 

[55g]

Not to highjack this thread, but I see tiny white circular shapes appearing on my glass. Using a 10X eye loupe, I can see a thin tan swirl inside this shape. Doesn't sound like a copepods by the description above. They doesn't seem move around. Any ideas?

 

[aceer15]

Is guess a worm

 

[Intricateart]

@55g we have that also, it is a type tube worm. I'm fairly sure our wrasse ate the worms out of ours.