Copepods in water column

[kalynk87]

Hello. I have a 15 gallon hello reef fully stocked with zoas, yumas, mushrooms, target mandarin, opossum wrasse, and pistol shrimp. I'm running the AI blade grow and glow. I've added pods several times because I never see them on the glass or backwall. Now about once a week I get a 'bloom' of copepods that are in the water column. I can see them swimming so I know they aren't stirred up sand or micro bubbles. Does anyone else have this happen? Is this a bad thing? Should I stop adding pods weekly to feed the mandarin and wrasse? I grow pods so they're free at this point. I've never seen this happen in a tank before. Thanks!!

 

[Science/G]

Super cool! The more the merrier I would say