HUGE BLOOM OF COPEPODS(??)

[Jackmot]

Hey!
So, I've been fighting with hair algae for 1-2 weeks and yesterday I found almost no hair algae in the tank. Today i looked at my filter sock and it's completely full of copepods (or at least something that looks like them haha).
Could this become a bad thing in the long run? I know everybody loves the pods there are just too many of them hahaha.

My setup is:
-Sump with a chaeto I got from my LFS (It actually has grown like crazy in this weeks and I know for a fact that the pods came in it)
-DT with a Pulsing Xenia, Green Star polyp, Mushroom coral and 2 turbo snails

I also found yesterday an amphipod bugging my GSP (which was completely closed) so i removed it from the tank. Is that also something to be worried about? (The GSP is fine now)
Are these actually Copepods or is it something else?

PS: For the last photo I simply filled the syringe in the filter sock. That's how overcrowded it is in there.

 

[NashobaTek]

Looks like a huge bloom. Pods are good for the tank, both amphipods and copepods are detris eaters.

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Hey!
So, I've been fighting with hair algae for 1-2 weeks and yesterday I found almost no hair algae in the tank. Today i looked at my filter sock and it's completely full of copepods (or at least something that looks like them haha).
Could this become a bad thing in the long run? I know everybody loves the pods there are just too many of them hahaha.

My setup is:
-Sump with a chaeto I got from my LFS (It actually has grown like crazy in this weeks and I know for a fact that the pods came in it)
-DT with a Pulsing Xenia, Green Star polyp, Mushroom coral and 2 turbo snails

I also found yesterday an amphipod bugging my GSP (which was completely closed) so i removed it from the tank. Is that also something to be worried about? (The GSP is fine now)
Are these actually Copepods or is it something else?

PS: For the last photo I simply filled the syringe in the filter sock. That's how overcrowded it is in there.

Do you plan/want a fish in your tank? If so, might be time to add it. I'd think even a single small fish will get those numbers down and controlled... which is why many always wants more copepods, they also have more than 1 fish...

Other than the removed amphipod (which likely has friends still there), nothing else in your tank eating copepods.

 

[NashobaTek]

Get a wrasse or dragonet, they'll eat the pods.

 

[RobB'z Reef]

Hey!
So, I've been fighting with hair algae for 1-2 weeks and yesterday I found almost no hair algae in the tank. Today i looked at my filter sock and it's completely full of copepods (or at least something that looks like them haha).
Could this become a bad thing in the long run? I know everybody loves the pods there are just too many of them hahaha.

My setup is:
-Sump with a chaeto I got from my LFS (It actually has grown like crazy in this weeks and I know for a fact that the pods came in it)
-DT with a Pulsing Xenia, Green Star polyp, Mushroom coral and 2 turbo snails

I also found yesterday an amphipod bugging my GSP (which was completely closed) so i removed it from the tank. Is that also something to be worried about? (The GSP is fine now)
Are these actually Copepods or is it something else?

PS: For the last photo I simply filled the syringe in the filter sock. That's how overcrowded it is in there.

Enjoy them, they'll eventually die off and level out once whatever food source they are thriving on at they moment gets consumed or levels out.

 

[Fish Think Pink]

Get a wrasse or dragonet, they'll eat the pods.

This might be only tank able to sustain a mandarin... but then people always want more fish and mandarins starve... wrasse would vacuum those copepods up in heartbeat

 

[NashobaTek]

That's why I have 3 mandrins and no wrasse. I'd love to get a lunare wrasse, but mandrins are first.

 

[Fish Think Pink]

That's why I have 3 mandrins and no wrasse. I'd love to get a lunare wrasse, but mandrins are first.

sounds like an excuse to get another tank... IMO <wink>

 

[NashobaTek]

sounds like an excuse to get another tank... IMO <wink>

Headed there... Getting a 200+

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

That's why I have 3 mandrins and no wrasse. I'd love to get a lunare wrasse, but mandrins are first.

Do you have three Mandy's in one tank?

 

[NashobaTek]

Do you have three Mandy's in one tank?

Sure do! 1 male and his harem of 2 females. It's a 125.
Pods are thick and the mandys are fat.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Sure do! 1 male and his harem of 2 females. It's a 125.

That's awesome. Has the male accepted them both? Any preference to one female over another?

 

[Spare time]

That's why I have 3 mandrins and no wrasse. I'd love to get a lunare wrasse, but mandrins are first.

A lunare wrasse is too big to eat copepods. I actually don't think they can eat any non free floating copepods due to the shape of their mouth.

 

[NashobaTek]

That's awesome. Has the male accepted them both? Any preference to one female over another?

Haha, he has, but the day they were all added, the biggest female gave him the what for. Lol

Now they hang out together all the time.

 

[NashobaTek]

A lunare wrasse is too big to eat copepods. I actually don't think they can eat any non free floating copepods due to the shape of their mouth.

Good to know, but I'm still going to wait until the big tank gets here.

 

[Jackmot]

Whoah! That's a lot of fast feedback haha, THANKS GUYS!!
-I've been thinking of getting a Clownfish but I haven't decided because im looking for a very low maintenance tank
-I would LOVE a dragonet or a mandarin but they are very rare in México and my tank is way too small hahaha.

-My DT is 14 liters and my sump is approx 25 liters (Yeah, I know it's very weird to have a sump bigger than your DT hahaha)

-If I don't add any fish would there be any problems?
-If I DO add a fish, which one would you recommend considering my tank dimensions??
-What do you guys think about getting a shrimp?

THANKS!!!

 

[Jackmot]

So... I just found a small isopod in the DT
What shall I do?

It looked extremely similar to the one's on this video

 

[Spare time]

So... I just found a small isopod in the DT
What shall I do?

It looked extremely similar to the one's on this video

Those are fine. I have plenty of them

 

[Jackmot]

Those are fine. I have plenty of them

Really?? Thanks!!
How can I tell the difference between the "good" ones and the "bad" ones?

 

[Spare time]

Really?? Thanks!!
How can I tell the difference between the "good" ones and the "bad" ones?

I don't see them that commonly but if you look up cirolanid isopods they look very unique. From my understanding, these are the "bad" isopods. These are parasites that latch onto fish.