Good or bad?

[PolandSpring]

well i just got home and my family told me that they have seen these little bugs crawling around near my zoos..so i decided to take a look and i spotted them also..at first i thought they were bristle worms but i just want to make sure ..there are like 30+ from what i think i saw and the sizes ranged from super super super small to about 3 milimiters.. they are a greyish color and looks like they have many legs..
what should i do? are they bristle worms or not? (a pic wouldn't help b/c they are too small) if so, what do bristle worms do? (i actually know they are nocturnal and also bc i havn't seen them during the day, when the light is on) how big do they get? and when they are bigger would they eat my corals?

 

[Domboski]

Did they look like this?

 

[PolandSpring]

yes..are those bristle worms?

 

[Domboski]

No they are amphipods. They are good inhabitants of a reef tank. Read some info on them here: http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-09/rs/index.php

 

[PolandSpring]

aright thnks...thats good then ..but they are gross to look at

 

[tomtoothdoc]

if they look like those then they are amphipods. they are fine with the corals. they are actually desirable, help eat detritus & good food for the fish.

 

[Domboski]

:lol2: They eat detritus and are good source of nutrition for your fish

 

[PolandSpring]

yah well they definitely dont look like bristle worms and tthey looked from what i could tell similar to the pics and now im happy that i have them thnks for ur help guys now i can go to sleep not worrying

 

[tomtoothdoc]

:lol2: They eat detritus and are good source of nutrition for your fish

we all are some sort of food recyclers too....do you eat any seafood? especially lobsters, crabs, calms....etc. guess what they eat. :tongue1:

we eat detritus:shhh: lol lol lol:eat:

 

[PolandSpring]

i love detritus then