HELP ID Copepods…Right?

[maxemorris]

Tank looks totally normal and healthy and I found found these guys all over the glass and free floating.

Only difference from yesterday is that I got two new pieces of coral. My tank is only a few months old and I’ve never seen or added pods before.

Can I get a mandarin goby to help eat them?

 

[WheatToast]

Looks like Copepods! These can hitchhike on live rock, corals, etc. and are a part of a healthy tank ecosystem. Most fish should consume these (free fish food!).

 

[Reef and Dive]

Yeah copepods they are great for the system. Do not worry to “fix” that, there is nothing to be fixed. A mandarin fish is a fish that, when we buy, the worry is if we will continuously have enough pods for them, if that’s the first time you saw that they are more likelly to wipe them all and after that starve, actually…