What is it?

[trwells]

I came home from school today and noticed a bunch, 1000s, of tiny little white creatures running around on my glass. They are very small less than a millimeter in total length and there bodies seem to be made up of two segments with two antennas. Does anyone know what these could be? Do I need to do anything about them?

My tank is only about a month old. It is my first attempt at a saltwater aquarium. IT is a jbj 24g deluxe nano cube, I removed the ceramic rings and bioballs.
It has the protein skimmer and I added the bioflo attachment to increase circulation.


Specific gravity is 1.0215
nitrates about 20 ppm
nitrites 0 ppm maybe a little above
Akalinity 240 ppm
PH about 8.2
Temperature just below 78 degrees

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19# live rock on about 5 cm of aragonite
3 red hermits
3 blue hermits
3 cerith snails
2 nassarius snails
2 astrea snails
1 Mexican Turbo snail
1 cleaner shrimp
1 sally lightfoot
and a few mushrooms

Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

Look for a picture of a "Harpacticoid Copepod". See if I'm close. If not tell me details of where I'm wrong.

 

[trwells]

Seems pretty similar to me, as far as I can tell. Good, bad?

 

[trido]

Good critters.

 

[Anonymous]

For safety and piece of mind you need to tear down your tank and box up all of the pieces in large boxes and mail them to me. :lol: 8)

They make excellent supplemental food for most of the critters in your tank.

 

[trwells]

No problem. There will be a $2000 service charge. Shipping is on me.

Thanks for your help.