What are these!?!

[67RedDonzi]

I opened up my coolers of live rock after the move yesterday (bought a new tank) and found all of these bugs/larvae floating at the top. They are alive and moving. What are they? They do not look like copepods to me

 

[veselym]

that is weird...I have no clue, they almost look like meal worms

 

[Texas Reefer]

How long were the rocks in the cooler? Could they be something non-saltwater related? We're the lids open outside?

 

[Reefing Madness]

Looks like a bunch of tube worms collected together.

 

[67RedDonzi]

The rocks were only in the cooler over night. Left inside with the lids closed, so it definitely came out of the live rock. The guy I got the tank from told my boyfriend that he grew copepods and other stuff/bugs in the fuge for his fish. Could this be some kind of food?

They have little tiny legs on them (almost like a copepod but smaller and they do not move like one) My biggest concern is ich but I don't now a lot about it, can you actually see the parasite like this? sorry if that is a dumb question

 

[Reefing Madness]

No, thats not Ich, you would'nt be able to see th eggs.

 

[shrimplet]

Thats bizzare. Id vote that those are tube worms

 

[bluwinghawk]

can you take a better pic of them In a glass jar or a closer more detailed shot?

 

[67RedDonzi]

I will try to get better picture is afternoon. The camera on my phone really isn't the best.

Do tubeworms have little legs though?

 

[Pete polyp]

Could they be mysis?

 

[miyags]

If they are floating at the top,they could be anthropods stuck to film layer at the surface.

 

[67RedDonzi]

Hmm I didn't think about Mysis...I've only ever fed frozen so have never seen them alive. I e-mailed the guy I bought the tank from yesterday and he said he bred a lot of different pods in the refugium ....he wasn't specific though. I only know of copepods and amphipods ...what else is there? sorry I couldn't get a better picture yesterday, everything was blurry