Copepods?

[TTSkipper]

I accidentally left my power heads off after feeding last night. When I came down to look at the tank this morning there were hundreds or thousands of small white bug looking things on my glass, mostly in an area where I missed cleaning up some green algae. They were about a millimeter long and only as wide as a hair.

Are these copepods? If so how did they come in? LR/coral hitchhikers?

 

[jrobbins]

did they look like bugs or little worms (like planaria) hard to say anything without pics...

 

[TTSkipper]

I think I saw a planaria today but this is much smaller, literally about a millimeter long and as wide as a hair. There is no detail on them that I would be able to capture with my camera. You would probably need a microscope for at least a strong magnifier for detail.

 

[KathyC]

Likely they are amphipods (there are many different types!) which come in on your live rock and coral too and multiply in your tank.
Do take a magnifying glass and look in the sand along the front of your tank (like you would look at an ant farm) and you will see all sorts of critters in burrows there

Copepods are extremely small and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.

 

[thirty5]

look like this??

or

 

[rcharliesam]

If they look like little arrow heads, flatworms.

 

[nyguardian21]

They are cool to watch... Especially amphipods...