copiopods eating my favia?

[geekengineer]

Just wondering would copepods eat a favia like maybe if some of it is dying? They look like copiopods and they look simmilar to what I took a picture I took here a while ago. They seem to be all over but having a party on one of my favia but don't seem to be bothering the other two I have much.

Before (the white string thing on the bottom is superglue and sorry for the bad pics.)

After

 

[musel101]

It looks like a sea spider
Not sure what they are..

 

[geekengineer]

decided to put it in a cup and got a better picture of the ones on the coral. To me they look like some sort of copepod. I wish I could take a picture with my microscope as you could see them better. lol

very thin long looking with with antennas on the head sort of like a straightened out shrimp or lobster. Have an oval and concave like shell over them. I do see a bit of a tail on them too.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

That's an isopod.

 

[geekengineer]

good/bad?

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

good/bad?

Good, part of the microfauna

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

It looks like a sea spider
Not sure what they are..

You summoned me?

 

[vetteguy53081]

decided to put it in a cup and got a better picture of the ones on the coral. To me they look like some sort of copepod. I wish I could take a picture with my microscope as you could see them better. lol

very thin long looking with with antennas on the head sort of like a straightened out shrimp or lobster. Have an oval and concave like shell over them. I do see a bit of a tail on them too.

These are amphipods from looks of pics which are blurry and they generally dont eat coral but rat algae and uneaten food off coral

 

[geekengineer]

These Munnid Isopod is what I think are and what I saw in the microscope. The picture on the glass looks really familiar also. So maybe my coral is just sick from something else.

https://www.seahorse.org/library/TESTING/hitch/isopod.shtml

 

[geekengineer]

I don't have any fish yet and tons of algae either so they are going to town on everything. I do have two snails (one turbo and a margarita) and I added a refugium recently. Well I do have fish but their going through quarantine right now.

 

[CBonito]

These are amphipods from looks of pics which are blurry and they generally dont eat coral but rat algae and uneaten food off coral

Yup!

I'm adding a half gallon of those little fools to my system and refugium tomorrow. They get into all those little spaces that we cant, the fish eat them and if you feed phyto, you can keep a strong population of them.