Little white specks

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Any help on ID'ing this stuff? They are little (1-2mm) organisms that move quickly like little water bugs. They appeared overnight and seem to be localized on the glass where I have some algae. My tank is only 2.5 weeks old and I just introduced some invertebrates (emerald crab, fire shrimp, astrea snails, nassarius snails and hermit crabs) 4 days ago. I started with live rock so I suppose they could have rode in on that too.....
Anything I need to worry about?

Thanks!
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They're copepods. There's probably some isopods on there as well, but I'm not seeing them in the picture.
 
I would imagine they are isopods and/or copepods.
 
This is a good thing right? Lol. So I just leave them alone?
 
That's a real good thing. You'll most likely have fish that will eat them.
 

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