Critter ID please

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Any ideas what these microscopic guys are
Doing my water change and turned the pump and wave makers off and these guys are coming up to the surface in the hundreds

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I’m unable to see anything from the pictures but my guess would be copepods. Are they scurrying around on the glass, if so I’ll stick with copepods.
 

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