Help identify little critters please!

[shoaib]

Hi can someone help me identity these little bugs in my tank. I literally have hundreds of the small little pests.

 

[littlefoxx]

Hi can someone help me identity these little bugs in my tank. I literally have hundreds of the small little pests.

I had these too, never found out what they were. My powder blue tang however eats them like candy lol

 

[shoaib]

I had these too, never found out what they were. My powder blue tang however eats them like candy lol

Thanks for the info, I recently lost my six line wrasse and I’m wondering if I’ve had these critters for long time and just never noticed it. Maybe my wrasse kept them in check. I also have a blue tang, will watch to see if he eats them. Thanks for your speedy reply.

 

[Propane]

Without seeing them close up im gonna assume they are copepods.

 

[littlefoxx]

Thanks for the info, I recently lost my six line wrasse and I’m wondering if I’ve had these critters for long time and just never noticed it. Maybe my wrasse kept them in check. I also have a blue tang, will watch to see if he eats them. Thanks for your speedy reply.

Youre welcome! I determined they were not harmful, never saw them anywhere but the glass and thats very possible he was eating them

 

[littlefoxx]

Without seeing them close up im gonna assume they are copepods.

These loom similar to mine and I dont think they were pods, unless its a weird kind. Some of mine were huge and long, others were small!

 

[paragrouper]

Hi can someone help me identity these little bugs in my tank. I literally have hundreds of the small little pests.

They look to be copepods. I have a lot of smaller fish (gobies, etc..) and they would make short work of them.

 

[lopez052308]

If there are larger ones, maybe some sort of amphipod???

 

[paragrouper]

If there are larger ones, maybe some sort of amphipod???

Could very well be.

 

[McCarrick]

They're isopods (the harmless ones!) Let me find the post to link

 

[McCarrick]

These are the common munnid isopod. You need these in your tank for it to "be all it can be". Corals eat these. Fish eat these. They clean up your tank.

This is a male

This is a female

Male and female.... ummmm..... "talking".

This is two males fighting over a woman

Don't hate a whole group of critters, when there is only the rare odd one that is harmful..... seems that's true of a lot of things in the world that is going on right now.