need help to id this creature

[pauline]

currently cycling my tank for less den a week, found some creature when looking at the LR..too small to take pic, so draw instead..but not nice la..the biggest one is ard the size of an underscore ( _ ), abit transparent with a dark line along the spine..there's ard 10 of it climbing in and out of the holes in my LR, some are tiny..izzit harmful? wat will it grow to be like?

[KennethK]

Sounds like pods. Fast moving.

[Solo77]

is that your free hand drawing...if yes, you got potential to be artist...hehehe

[yikai]

Its some kind of crustacean like pod. my tank also have. Is it can swim and move quite fast? I always see my mandarin try to catch it, but he too slow lols

[dachkie]

pods are yummy yummy for fishes, and to a certain extend (not much ) they help to clean detritus

[pauline]

they dun swim leh..just climb in and out of the hole..will they grow bigger?

[dachkie]

urs might be copepods, the bigger 1s arn --- size is amphipods,

then the bad 1s that suck blood from fishes are isopods

the 1s u can eat are also call isopods

[pauline]

is that your free hand drawing...if yes, you got potential to be artist...hehehe

hehe.....i dont know i can draw so well......

[pauline]

Its some kind of crustacean like pod. my tank also have. Is it can swim and move quite fast? I always see my mandarin try to catch it, but he too slow lols

so is this creature cause any harm to my tank?? thank 4 the suggest......

[pauline]

pods are yummy yummy for fishes, and to a certain extend (not much ) they help to clean detritus

i think there r more than 10 of it in my tank, so is it too much, should i try to clear it?? n how??

[pauline]

pods are yummy yummy for fishes, and to a certain extend (not much ) they help to clean detritus

oh ok, so am i right to say that this is not harmful to my presion tank??

[vt_snowman87]

it is not harmful.. it is natural to have them, and a good healthy growth of the pods are good signs..

[yikai]

it is not harmful.. it is natural to have them, and a good healthy growth of the pods are good signs..

Yep. good growth of pods are good signs. ur fish also can feast of them =)