Are these Copepods?

[spcpettit22]

Just wondering if these guys are good or bad?

 

[spcpettit22]

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[oldbones]

Amphipods. General consensus, good.

 

[whiner25]

good. scavengers who will eat detritus, food/fish waste, etc...

 

[shred5]

Amphipods. General consensus, good.

Amphipods is correct.

Copepods are very small and some are almost impossible to see..

If you want to see copepods the best chance is at night turn off all pumps and shine a flashlight near the bottom of the tank allot should gather in the light.

Copepods usually now a days are very few in our tanks. We keep our tanks too clean for big populations of copedods because they feed on algae and detritus mainly. We also keep too many animals that eat them like wrasses, gobies, basslets etc.

 

[spcpettit22]

Okay thanks guys. Ya I have like a million of them because they are all over the tank and the rocks, so I guess that's a good thing. Thanks again

 

[spcpettit22]

Now what is this just found it in my tank when the lights were off. It looks like a snail but I haven't added any snails in my tank and this one doesn't have a shell. I watched it and it looked like it had a tube mouth that was sucking the glass when it put the tube on the glass.

 

[spcpettit22]

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[tonysi]

Looks like a stomatella snail to me... Harmless, will do the same thing as a snail you would buy- eat algae and what not.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Yep, stomatella. Great hitchhikers!

 

[shred5]

Looks like a stomatella snail to me... Harmless, will do the same thing as a snail you would buy- eat algae and what not.

Yep The good news is they can multiply if there is enough food for them..
If you try to grab one their tail will come off.

 

[juniorrocketdad]

Ya I found one of those snails in my tank about a moth ago, it basically is the same as a normal snail