Copepods???

[NewbReefer]

is this a copepod? im 3 days into the cycle and I have them all over a couple pieces of my live rock.

Not the best of pic but i had a hard time getting one of them.

 

[jermpool]

Doesn't look like it from the pic. It looks more like a bristle worm but it's hard to tell with it being so blurry. Wetwebmedia, Aquarium, Pond, Marine and Freshwater Fish, reef tanks, and Aquatics Information has a good data base on hitch hikers.

 

[yote]

Yep,thats a pod of some kind.Both my tanks are full of those.
Newb,have you noticed that the ones in your pic will turn flips?Their tails curl back under them.

 

[Bifferwine]

I think it's a pod too. (Sorry Jerm...)

 

[NewbReefer]

yeah they'll kinda fit themselves in a tight spot in the live rock and kinda roll themselves on the rock. i had figured they were pods, they looked like they were scavanging for things.

 

[fishbait]

it's definatly a pod. it's an amphipod to be exact. i have tons of them!

 

[fishbait]

Melev's Reef - Visual Identification
here is a link

 

[NewbReefer]

Yep thats exactly what it is, thanks Fishbait, I have even more now woth the new LR i introduces to my tank and the Cheato that is suppose to arrive for my fuge soon is suppose to be loaded with em.

 

[fishbait]

cool, i you get a diamond goby he will be in paradise.

 

[fishbait]

oops, i meant to say if you get one. i cant type tonite

 

[NewbReefer]

I love goby's! They are defenitly on the list of fish i want.

 

[fishbait]

they are cool to watch. they will actually burrow under live rock to make a small "fuge" and then go back and eat the pods. i have noticed mine pulling hair algae off the rock and putting it in his fuge.

 

[NewbReefer]

wow thats neat they'll burrow under the rock for the pods like that.