is this a copepod or rotifer or amphipod...?

[velocityoflove]

I don't have any experience with copepods/rotifers/amphipods, but my boyfriend just set up a saltwater tank. There's not much in there at the moment but there are tons of these little white "bugs"? What are they exactly?

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[spike]

Id page from Melevsreef,

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/pods.html">http://www.melevsreef.com/id/pods.html</a>

To the naked eye Rotifers look like particles of dust floating in water.

 

[frantz]

I'd guess copepod. Amphipods that I have curl up like shrimp (but have tiny mantis like claws under a microscope)

 

[heathlindner25]

looks like a little of all 3

 

[ralph atl]

Isopod....?

 

[hiimsean]

mysterybox;808244 wrote: Isopod....?

this. amphs, like Frantz said, look like curled up shrimp. copepods look like a teardrop with antenna.

i've spent plenty of time staring at copepods. i took an oceanography class back in college where i stared at them observing their through a microscope feeding habits for 3hrs straight