Copepods?

[TBLightning]

These guts started showing up everywhere. Water is cloudy and the glass is crawling with these guys. Anything to worry about?

Pic taken through a 15x jewelers loup.

I also realized I've got some algae to scrub.

 

[dstockwell]

Good things to have.

 

[TBLightning]

Good things to have.

Could a bloom of them be causing the water clarity issue or is that a separate problem?

 

[dstockwell]

Did you just add a bunch of something? What size tank, rocks, etc.

 

[TBLightning]

Did you just add a bunch of something? What size tank, rocks, etc.

32g biocube. Only thing recently added was a 2-3lb piece of Caribsea dry rock several weeks ago.

 

[dstockwell]

I added 16oz of AlgaGenPods Tisbe, to a 55. I didn't get a bloom, a small like shower and back to normal. Maybe the dry rock could have caused a bloom, but I don't know enough to say that's true.

 

[GobyGuy]

what kind of cloudy? white cloud? sounds like bacterial bloom... if so it will subside - those look like copepods to be - unable to tell if they are free swimming or surface livers without knowing species - not even sure if a large dose of free swimming ones could cause a bloom...... anyways, white cloud probably bacterial bloom