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So I was walking in the room with my tank last night and I turned on the lights (I had turned the aquarium lights out about 2 hours before) and noticed little tiny bug like creature crawling around on my rock. They are about 1 mm long and crawl like ants. I saw some people had clearish ones like this called copepods but mine are actually a brown color. I have a good amount of them too. I tried to ID them but they are just too small to see what exact bodily structure they have. Any ideas? Also, I started with ENTIRELY dead materials. How could these get into my tank? All I have is 6 hermits, 3 fish. Thanks guys!

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Most likely amphipods. They come in many shades of brown and grey, and sometimes clear. Copepods are generally about that size too, so could be either one.

 

Amphipods are usually 4-5cm long, and look like tiny gray shrimp.

Copepods generally look more like tiny transparent or brown specks.

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but these things are extremely tiny, and the closer I look, they are actually out right now, in the light. They are about 1 mm long


Also, what would eat these besides fish? Would a shrimp or hermit crabs eat them?

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