Microscope footage of mite. Dangerous?

[Undersea Gardens]

I have lots of these "bugs". At first I thought they may be the dreaded black bugs, but I'm pretty sure they aren't now that I have good footage. Anyone know if they are going to post a problem?

 

[mww00ds]

Kind of look like Laval crabs.

 

[GlassMunky]

and possibly flatworms or something? what are those round brown things moving around on the coral in the bottom right?

 

[Undersea Gardens]

and possibly flatworms or something? what are those round brown things moving around on the coral in the bottom right?

I think those are some type of dinos.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have lots of these "bugs". At first I thought they may be the dreaded black bugs, but I'm pretty sure they aren't now that I have good footage. Anyone know if they are going to post a problem?

Appears to be an isopod and I would remove with tweezers or tongs

 

[Undersea Gardens]

I have thousands all over. They aren't even visible to the naked eye really. I think I was zoomed in several hundred times

 

[taricha]

these are marine mites - halacarid mites.
https://www.marinebio.org/creatures...arine-mites-halacarid-and-pontarachnid-mites/
They are not harmful.

In the white accumulations, you also have a bunch of diatoms and a couple of ostreopsis dino cells.

 

[jvbear]

these are marine mites - halacarid mites.
https://www.marinebio.org/creatures...arine-mites-halacarid-and-pontarachnid-mites/
They are not harmful.

In the white accumulations, you also have a bunch of diatoms and a couple of ostreopsis dino cells.

these look like some kind of spider

 

[Undersea Gardens]

these are marine mites - halacarid mites.
https://www.marinebio.org/creatures...arine-mites-halacarid-and-pontarachnid-mites/
They are not harmful.

In the white accumulations, you also have a bunch of diatoms and a couple of ostreopsis dino cells.

Thank you for taking the time to put my mind at ease. I had already identified them as halicarid mites but nobody could tell me if they were harmful or not.

 

[taricha]

nobody could tell me if they were harmful or not.

They have a piercing/sucking mouth type, so they could be physically capable of feeding on lots of things.
But we pretty much always find them in sandbed and sump detritus. We never find them on corals, fish, snails, crabs etc.
And they are large enough that they'd be seen coming off corals and fish in dips etc.