small (white or clear) bug?

[edawgm]

I had a arrow crab die this morning and when i pick him up and looked at him i noticed this tiny little critters running on him. later i noticed some on a live rock. I mean they are hard to see if you are not looking very very close and looking for movement. any suggestions on what this could be i have only had my 75g up and going for 2 months now and i know that things will come out of no where but just wanted to check. Also this things are extremly to small to get a picture of. any ideas?

[txstateunivreefer]

could be pods aka copopods did they look like tiny shrimp?

[MattK]

http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/bugs/photoalbum_view

[edawgm]

they are to small i mean you can see them moving around but it is to hard to really see what they are

[edawgm]

I think they might be isopods and copepods. thanks for the link MattK but are this things good or bad? sorry for the dumb sounding questions but i am new and still trying to learn as much as i can about SW.

[jroescher]

They are a good sign that your tank is coming along nicely. If you really want to see a bunch of them, look at your tank in middle of the night with flashlight.

[edawgm]

thanks i will have to go and check now since its around 11:45 lol