ID help Got a lot of something in my pod culture

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I've got a lot of these super tiny things in my copepod culture(it's an experimental culture that hasn't been set up for very long, about 12 days I think). They weren't there like, only 3~4 days ago.
They are much smaller than the copepods (adult) and also smaller than the ostracods I had before (and much faster).
They might appear too small in the video to be able to tell but does anyone have any clue as to what they could be? I'd be very happy if they were the copepod nauplii but I won't get my hopes up yet.



 
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Not sure from the video (I can't tell - they're too small for me to see well), but some pods are ~10 times bigger as adults than as nauplii, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were nauplii.

Hopefully someone will be able to confirm what you've got though.
 

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