Help identifying tiny white specs on glass

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Just sat down to check our classroom BioCube and fed tiny white specs moving around on glass. Too tiny to capture in a photo. Does anyone have any idea what this can be? I have not introduced anything new recently. Coral came from a well established tank several months ago with zero noticeable hitchhikers. Any help would be appreciated, as we are very curious as to what this could be. Thank you!
 

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Maybe? Without pics it’s hard to say. There’s lots of tiny things lol
See if any of these google pics match what you’re seeing:
Spirobid worms
Copepods
Flatworms
Collonista snails

those are the most common
 
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@Mgex @ahiggins thank you for your help. Based on observations and photos. I believe they are copepods. It’s very cool. Didn’t know any were in there.
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I just noticed something similar in my tank. I overflowed my skimmer yesterday, cleaned it and let it ride, now I have all these little specs scooting around on the glass. I don't have any corals, have a cleanup crew, a goby and two clowns. Not sure how copepods come about? Is there like a big bang kind of development to these things? LOL pardon my ignorance but not sure how else they would have developed
 

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I just noticed something similar in my tank. I overflowed my skimmer yesterday, cleaned it and let it ride, now I have all these little specs scooting around on the glass. I don't have any corals, have a cleanup crew, a goby and two clowns. Not sure how copepods come about? Is there like a big bang kind of development to these things? LOL pardon my ignorance but not sure how else they would have developed
They hitchhike in on snail shells
 

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Copepods and free food for the fish and coral
 
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