Little White Critters, Bad Right?

[physcoben]

I have a 90 gal reef started bout a month ago, it was transfered from a 20 gal. i have 1 false percula, 1 hippo tang, 1 cleaner shrimp, bunch of snails, live rock, and hermits. But what i want to talk about are these really small criters that i saw this morning while turning on the tank, they are whitish clear, and they ran into the live rock upon turning on the light, I want to know what they are and if they're bad, how to get rid of them. Please respond with any info.

 

[kimmisue]

Those little critters are good! They mean your tank is cycling and developing correctly.
probably Copepods
Kim

 

[twoods71]

More often then not the little critters we see on the LR are good rather then bad.
I agree with the above post in that they are probably some type of microcrustacean.

 

[keitho]

in addition to copepods, i recently observed what was either a mysid shrimp or a small mysis shrimp. either way, it was very cool...

 

[nm reef]

If I was to show pics of those to my manderian it would do somersaults......*_^....he hunts 'em all day while he picks copepods from here and there.........