Are there copepods in Carib sea live sand

[leo12345]

I always see my angel fish eating tiny little white things floating around in my tank but I didn’t put any copepods or anything in my tank so could they have came from my live sand or are they not even copepods?

 

[Mushroomsyo]

I think only bacteria is added to the sand. Doubt a pod would survive in the bag long.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

I always see my angel fish eating tiny little white things floating around in my tank but I didn’t put any copepods or anything in my tank so could they have came from my live sand or are they not even copepods?

What else is, or has been, in the tank besides the angel? Pods will enter almost all tanks; from live rock, coral frags, even from the water in the bag the fish came in...

 

[leo12345]

What else is, or has been, in the tank besides the angel? Pods will enter almost all tanks; from live rock, coral frags, even from the water in the bag the fish came in...

Two clowns and a cleaner shrimp, my rock wasn’t real live rock it was Carib sea LR

 

[WheatToast]

I always see my angel fish eating tiny little white things floating around in my tank...

Pictures?
Usually Copepods in the hobby prefer to stick to glass.

 

[AydenLincoln]

No! Only bacteria anything else that may have been alive is long dead.

 

[leo12345]

Pictures?
Usually Copepods in the hobby prefer to stick to glass.

There’s little thing on the glass that i think are moving, i wish I could take a picture but there to small for my camera to pick up.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

There’s little thing on the glass that i think are moving, i wish I could take a picture but there to small for my camera to pick up.

Prolly is pods. Can ride in with coral. Also with fish water from LFS... I don't dump in LFS water for obvious reasons tho.

 

[leo12345]

Prolly is pods. Can ride in with coral. Also with fish water from LFS... I don't dump in LFS water for obvious reasons tho.

I don’t either and i don't have corals so i have no idea how they got there and multiplied so fast.

 

[Jay'sReefBugs]

If they are floating around it's most likely some sort of shrimp offspring. Copepods will be on substrate and glass work as majority in the hobby are non pelagic. Could of came in a number of ways but definitely not from the live sand

 

[HBtank]

I don’t either and i don't have corals so i have no idea how they got there and multiplied so fast.

Did you let any water from fish purchases into the tank?

 

[leo12345]

Did you let any water from fish purchases into the tank?

Just whatever water was one the fish or was stuck in the net when i put the fish in.

 

[leo12345]

If they are floating around it's most likely some sort of shrimp offspring. Copepods will be on substrate and glass work as majority in the hobby are non pelagic. Could of came in a number of ways but definitely not from the live sand

They look just like your pfp.