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I found these crawling in my tank shortly after mounting some coral. None of the coral is new. I'm sorry, but my camera will not zoom in close enough to get a clear picture, but hopefully you can see the little things moving around. I will keep trying to get better pics

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Hard to see, but based off how they move, looks like come pods made their way in on a frag. good thing
 

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I found these crawling in my tank shortly after mounting some coral. None of the coral is new. I'm sorry, but my camera will not zoom in close enough to get a clear picture, but hopefully you can see the little things moving around. I will keep trying to get better pics

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No, not really clear but if you are talking about the little tiny specks crawling on the sand then I would say some sort of pod.
 

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I found these crawling in my tank shortly after mounting some coral. None of the coral is new. I'm sorry, but my camera will not zoom in close enough to get a clear picture, but hopefully you can see the little things moving around. I will keep trying to get better pics

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Looks like amphipods. Should be fine.

 

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I found these crawling in my tank shortly after mounting some coral. None of the coral is new. I'm sorry, but my camera will not zoom in close enough to get a clear picture, but hopefully you can see the little things moving around. I will keep trying to get better pics

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They are copepods which are free food for fish and coral and eat algae as one source
 

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They are copepods which are free food for fish and coral and eat algae as one source
You're probably right but they seem bigger to me. But the video isn't that close up.



I still lean towards amphipod. 🙂
 

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You're probably right but they seem bigger to me. But the video isn't that close up.



I still lean towards amphipod. 🙂
Hard to tell in video as they are distant
 

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You're probably right but they seem bigger to me. But the video isn't that close up.



I still lean towards amphipod. 🙂
Hard to tell in video as they are distant
 

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You're probably right but they seem bigger to me. But the video isn't that close up.



I still lean towards amphipod. 🙂
Hard to tell in video as they are distant
 

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