Mystery White Moving Specs

[ItsAName]

So about two weeks ago I had (still have) a pineapple sponge outbreak in my refugium. Today, I noticed several hundred little tiny white specs on my glass in the display tank. About 50% of them run around (not sure if they have legs, but they are moving!) They are too tiny to see what they are with the naked eye. I tried to a take a pic zoomed in about 20x, but not sure if helpful as impossible to focus on since they move.

So my question is, are these the pineapple sponges making their way into the display tank, and if so I didn't know they moved! If can't be the pineapple sponges, what could they be?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Look up copepod.

 

[ItsAName]

Can there be copepods if I didn't introduce them? I haven't added anything new to the tank in about 3 months.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Yea. It's possible.
Crazy right?
Is that what they look like to you?

I had a mysis shrimp bloom in my tank one night. No clue how that happened.

 

[Oldsalt01]

Ya. 'Pods. Free fish food!

 

[TheLadyCrash]

Agree with some sort of pod. Good snacks for your fish and coral.