Echale3
Community Member
I got up this morning and as the tank lights started to come up, I saw 30-40 of these little guys off towards the corner. I've been trying to identify them, and the best I can come up with is some species of calanoid or cyclopoid copepod. Any copepod experts in here that can help me narrow down an ID better than the not so wonderful results my google-fu has come up with?
Best guess is that they hitchhiked in with the CUC order from ReefCleaners.org I recently made or, maybe more likely, came in with the corals I picked up from my LFS about a week ago, as I haven't seen anything like them before today. Not that I'm complaining, mind you, I think it's great, and I hope to be able to propagate them. Guess my plan to add a refugium to my sump will have to come off sooner than I was expecting.
This is as good a closeup through the glass as my phone would get this morning. The large ones on the glass are about 3/16" long or thereabouts. There seems to be some smaller ones swimming around, too, but I wasn't able to get a good pic of them.
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Best guess is that they hitchhiked in with the CUC order from ReefCleaners.org I recently made or, maybe more likely, came in with the corals I picked up from my LFS about a week ago, as I haven't seen anything like them before today. Not that I'm complaining, mind you, I think it's great, and I hope to be able to propagate them. Guess my plan to add a refugium to my sump will have to come off sooner than I was expecting.
This is as good a closeup through the glass as my phone would get this morning. The large ones on the glass are about 3/16" long or thereabouts. There seems to be some smaller ones swimming around, too, but I wasn't able to get a good pic of them.
