What are these bugs?!?!

paxton.rock · May 22, 2023

What kind of bugs are these (pic 1) and are they good or bad. They are NOT copepods. Popped up a week ago and have expanded a lot! Also little spider web things popping up on my glass seen in
(pic 2)

paragrouper · May 22, 2023

The pictures did not post

RocketEngineer · May 22, 2023

Those are amphipods/copepods. You want them.

Salty_Northerner · May 22, 2023

May I ask what you introduced into the tank recently? And I agree with @RocketEngineer on this one.

Bought 2 different jars of pods a while ago. 1 was galaxy pods and the other one I really can't recall. Like 18** something like that. I now have all sorts of weird ones that look like mutations but whatever, they do their job and I only see them really good at night with a flashlight.

Reef Devils · Jun 11, 2023

paxton.rock said:
What kind of bugs are these (pic 1) and are they good or bad. They are NOT copepods. Popped up a week ago and have expanded a lot! Also little spider web things popping up on my glass seen in
(pic 2)

I have the same things in my tank that look like spider web things. Not sure what they are.

Kasrift · Jun 11, 2023

paxton.rock said:
What kind of bugs are these (pic 1) and are they good or bad. They are NOT copepods. Popped up a week ago and have expanded a lot! Also little spider web things popping up on my glass seen in
(pic 2)

First pic munnid isopods, good guys. Second one hydroid jellyfish which will die out eventually.