What is this in my copepod culture??

[britnicole1724]

Smaller than a grain of rice… baby bristleworm? These are in my copepod culture :/ only pods in here are from algae barn.

copepods are ecopods from algae barn and I make my own saltwater. I have no idea what they are or how these ended up in here

 

[Dan_P]

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Smaller than a grain of rice… baby bristleworm? These are in my copepod culture :/ only pods in here are from algae barn. View attachment 2818601 View attachment 2818603

copepods are ecopods from algae barn and I make my own saltwater. I have no idea what they are or how these ended up in here

Looks like bristle worm. They would be eating the things copepods eat.

 

[britnicole1724]

Looks like bristle worm. They would be eating the things copepods eat.

That’s so frustrating. And here I was being so cautious to not add bristle worms into my display

 

[reef_1]

Take out some pods and start a clean(er) culture with them.

Hardest stuff in culturing is to keep clean cultures and being able to start a new clean culture from a contaminated one.

Smaller the cultured stuff the harder is it, with pods its actually quite easy as you can just pick some out even one by one if necessary.

Now imagine how would you single out phyto cells.

 

[Dan_P]

That’s so frustrating. And here I was being so cautious to not add bristle worms into my display

Are you concerned about bristle worms?

 

[vetteguy53081]

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Smaller than a grain of rice… baby bristleworm? These are in my copepod culture :/ only pods in here are from algae barn. View attachment 2818601 View attachment 2818603

copepods are ecopods from algae barn and I make my own saltwater. I have no idea what they are or how these ended up in here

Its a dorvillidae worm , a cousin to the bristle that is reef safe and eats uneaten food and detritus