Copepods?

austin55 · Mar 27, 2015

I've had my tank running about 1 and a half months now. Today I went to clean the from glass and I noticed all over the glass there were small white bugs moving all over the glass. Could this be copepods already?

beaslbob · Mar 27, 2015

beaslbob · Mar 27, 2015

But copepods are generally larger with some looking like itty bitty shrimp.

austin55 · Mar 27, 2015

Yes that's exactly what it looks like. Also I thought I had alot of micro bubbles floating around but when I got close its actually copepods free swimming around?

vic67 · Mar 28, 2015

I'm guessing they're copepods. Amipods are the tiny shrimp-like things.

AdamNC · Mar 28, 2015

vic67 said:
I'm guessing they're copepods. Amipods are the tiny shrimp-like things.

This exactly, the more copes the better. I recently just added another 500 copes to my 11 month old tank.

nickvincentiv · Apr 30, 2015

Totally new to this i aquired a biocube 14 for free glass is scratched to heck but wanted to see if u could handle this as a hobby i always heard it was hard but so far so good ..... Tank has been up 2 mths now went to add my first frag nd noticed after about a week these "white bugs" one on the polyps but 4 or so on glass some are really tiny and some a tad bit larger i trird to capture a puc but this is the best i could focus with phone....What are these? Hopefully not bad!