Phytoplankton culture has pods?

[dlh]

I removed a phytoplankton culture from its glass container and bottled half. After cleaning and sterilizing the container I put the remaining in the glass container and topped off with saltwater. This morning I noticed a good amount of copepods in the glass container. Is this good or bad?

 

[bradreef]

Bad, that is now a pod culture and you need to restart a phyto one