Itty Bitty Creatures on my glass

[carey]

Title says it all. LOL I just noticed hundreds if not thousands of these little tiny white lice looking things all over my glass. My gramma has been pecking at them, I thought it was just air bubbles til i took a really really close look.

Please tell me these are pods or something hehe...

I also found alot of bigger white looking things on some of my live rock. Those guys are pods right?

Thanks for everyones help!

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

The little things that look like lice are most likely copepods. Bigger things that look like miniature shrimp or fleas are probably amphipods.

 

[carey]

Yeah, the ones on the rocks are bigger than the ones on the glass. So these are good things then? there seems to be an awful lot of them

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

Free fish food!

Their population will increase and decrease as the tank goes through its phases.

 

[Dylan5359]

Found some in my tank. No idea how they got in. (no live rock, no live sand, tank is cycling!) I thought they were just sand particles getting in place, there seems to be hundreds!

 

[needmorecowbell]

I was watching a movie on animal planet called blue planet and they had deep sea amphipods. They werent small though. It was like a enlarged one. About 2 feet instead! Really interesting though