What in the world!?

So I looked super close at the brown dots in my tank thinking they were more diatoms but what suprised to see about a billion or more bugs the size of about a half a comma , in every square inch of my tank . What the heck are these?

 

copepods or amphipods

i probably spell both those wrong but that would be my guess

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/copepod.htm

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/amphipods.htm

 

They look way too small to be those. These are microscopic

 

Many pods are infact microscopic.

 

How long has the tank been setup?

 

2 months

 

copepods

 

:thumb_up:great find

 

So as time has passed I took another look at my tank. What I am seeing are blotches of very thin dark red to purple spots in my sand only. When you look close you see very very very very very tiny little bugs, they are almost too small. Anyways what could these be? I do not belive they are copepods because of the fact that at night, I took a flashlight to the sandbed and saw the clear critters crawling all over. What in the world are these little red things?

 

By clear critter I mean copepods. Haha