Cyno eaters!!

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I may have stumbled on something amazing! I am running my display tank fallow until May because of an outbreak of velvet. Since there were no fish in my tank, I added a couple bottles of copepods to build a population without threat of being eaten.
I have a small amount of cyno on my glass. That spot is covered in little copepods, and there is less cyno. It is disappearing somehow. I've never heard of anything eating cyno, but my tank is overflowing with copepods. Maybe no-one has had enough copepods to eat it? Am I crazy?
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Very Cool! We raise Copepods commercially and I have seen them eat some very strange stuff (Apex eating Dino's etc.) but Cyano? I will try to duplicate!
 
Not crazy at all.. several species of copepods have been quantitatively shown to use cyanobacteria as a food source.. and a habitat for their young..Specifically types of Trichodesmium
 

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