Small larva living in filter NEED SOLUTION ASAP

[hexcolor reef]

What are they and how to get rid of them? What product to use safe for fish and coral.
Thanks

 

[taricha]

Those look like copepods. They are beneficial and unavoidable. Fish and inverts find them to be good food.

 

[exnisstech]

This is an emergency? :thinking-face: OP doesnt even know what it is and wants to kill it already. Geesh. seeing new stuff appearing in the tank was the most fun I had when I started up.

 

[jimk60]

Can you get a better picture? Hard to tell what they are

 

[mww00ds]

From the picture they look like sponges

 

[NkSde]

Look like some sort of pod jusging by that edge thickness.

 

[hexcolor reef]

Those look like copepods. They are beneficial and unavoidable. Fish and inverts find them to be good food.

thanks, did some research and I see my clown fish are eating them off the glass. I guess it’s a good time to add some tangs

 

[hexcolor reef]

This is an emergency? :thinking-face: OP doesnt even know what it is and wants to kill it already. Geesh. seeing new stuff appearing in the tank was the most fun I had when I started up.

These copepods were over taking my tank before I knew what it was. I had added some bio poly filters to catch micro debris vs adding a sock and it cleared the water up and slowed them down from being in my main tank. So I now see what they are. Corals, specifically my torches were closing up

 

[exnisstech]

These copepods were over taking my tank before I knew what it was. I had added some bio poly filters to catch micro debris vs adding a sock and it cleared the water up and slowed them down from being in my main tank. So I now see what they are. Corals, specifically my torches were closing up

Never had pods take over a tank. Heck people buy them to populate their systems. Pods are a good thing IMO and very welcome in most tanks Some species can even and help with dynos. If your corals are closing up I seriously doubt it is caused by pods. Unless those or not pods :thinking-face: