little critter on the glass of my tank

[marinenewbies]

there are over 50 little creatures size 1mm, size like as a sand, it moving and flicking on the glass of my 20 gallons tank, .... does anyone have any ideas of what creatures that i'm talking about... if anyone does know it, please let me know, thanks... helpful or bad creatures....?

 

[Anonymous]

Sound like copepods to me. Definitely a good thing and a sign that your tank is moving in the right direction.

 

[marinenewbies]

thank you so much "SBGRAD24".....

 

[panmanmatt]

yup sounds like copepods to me too. my tank is loaded with them keeps my mandarins well fed. just added an in tank refugium three days ago and they have already populated that too.

 

[Anonymous]

If you have hopes of keeping a Scooter Blenny or Mandarin down the road you will need a lot of these critters. With time their population will stabilize. I added some rubble piles behind my larger rock to help give them a good place to breed. Scooters eat almost constantly and can slowly starve over many months if you don't have enough copepods.

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[Anonymous]

Cool........I have them all over my garbage can but they are much bigger.LOL Ok Ok...yep..these guys are good for your tank. Don't worry unless they grow wings. LOL