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camfam · 12-13-2007, 09:48 PM

I have a few supersmall, extremly fast little animals that I have been noticing. They are way to small and fast to be photographed. They are about the size of a piss ant, seem to be bright red in the front and whit in the back and crawl very quickly over the LR.

Any thoughts out there??

Matt Rogers · 12-13-2007, 11:12 PM

Sounds like copepods or some kind of pod:
copepods - Google Image Search

Totally cool to have. Good sign in a reef tank.

reef_guru · 12-13-2007, 11:28 PM

or is it this
amphipod - Google Image Search

Matt Rogers · 12-13-2007, 11:48 PM

Aye.. Good call. I think you will probably win. I was thrown by the piss ant reference.

geekdafied · 12-14-2007, 12:42 AM

isopods look just like ants

camfam · 12-14-2007, 05:49 AM

Sorry for the piss ant referrance, I was just using it for a size referrance. I guess it could be one of the above, but it is way to small and fast to see if it looks like one of these. I sure hope it is

.

Thanks a ton!!

W

pooner · 12-20-2007, 07:55 PM

if they are that fast then they are probably mysis shrimp...also good

ziggy222 · 12-20-2007, 11:54 PM

mysis are bigger and not always good cause they eat copods.cocpods just eat waste which is great