Copepods?

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Found these guys hanging in the corner of my tank only a few hours after the lights went off.
I rushed home last night from a different town to look at my tank at home after learning about copepods. And sure enough I see these guys doing a business meeting in my tank!!
I know there are different kinds of pods but which ones would I ideally want more than other pods?

It’s hard to tell and make out but these guys are pretty huge, I thought there were usually microscopic and needed a magnifying glass to see them. These guys are the size of the average ants! I was shocked!

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I hate copepods they are the Inmortals.
Tried and tried harder with electrocution, high level of chlorine that the room had to be aired out for 10 minutes before entering, double strength vinger.
Now its copper sulfate pentahydrate and had killed all that I cam see with my good eyes (use bright led touch on sides of tank and through the water column or on and angle on the surface)
Beware before you didn't, if you have no hair or got grey hair just go ahead.
Then they are the resting eggs.
I have killed what I can see, eggs, now getting resting eggs to hatch to kill them.
They can get through .5 micron filter.
 

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Like coprocessor, if you find 10 then there is so so many that you can't or if your eyes are like my eyes and the use of bright LED light you can see 3 to 5 per mm, there is still much more I can't see.
Photos don't show any fully grown adults as photo has been voted in.
 

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