What do copepods look like - ID Request

[ucdcrew]

I can't really find too many photos zoomed out - and I'm having a little freak out session because there are white bugs crawling in my tank. Are these copepods? They seem to 'walk' around, I say 'walk' because I can't see any legs. For scale, the digitata is about 1.5 inches tall.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl

Click that and just enter copepod and you'll get all kinds of pictures under the Images tab

 

[Kentech5]

You can see some in this video of copepods in my tank.


https://vimeo.com/162340734

 

[Xxero]

Are you sure they're not snails? They look kind of like Spirorbis Snails to me:

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/spirorbis.shtml

 

[Ron Reefman]

ucdcrew, it's really hard to say what you have there based on the photo, but those aren't copepods. Pods swim and look like super small shrimp. For a while when I first started I thought my mated pair of banded coral shrimp had hatched out babies! Silly me.

 

[ucdcrew]

I'm starting to think they're not pods. :-/

FWIW - they look like monti eating nudibranchs. Someone suggested that on the SPS forum.

 

[zelie_dad]

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl

Click that and just enter copepod and you'll get all kinds of pictures under the Images tab

Here you go

 

[ucdcrew]

Just for the record, I am not an idiot, and I do know how to do a google image search. Most of the images that were on there are magnified to the point that I could not make out the features on the small creatures I was looking at in the tank. I believe my original post states this. Maybe its my bad for assuming that everyone, anywhere in the world knows how to do a google image search, and that I would have already tried that before posting. Anyhow, now I've gotta figure out how to get the monti eating nudis out of my tank. Don't worry, I'll google that too.

 

[Reefstarter2]

To get those out is fairly easy, remove any monti and dip in bayer for 20 minutes, rinse for 20 and return to tank for four weeks in a row

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Nobody said you're an idiot, and I don't assume that everybody knows about Google.

OH and zelie I know about that one too. I use that one when I'm trying to be a smart ***

 

[ucdcrew]

Nobody said you're an idiot, and I don't assume that everybody knows about Google.

OH and zelie I know about that one too. I use that one when I'm trying to be a smart ***

HA! But I'm female, its my job to infer things that aren't really there.