Thread: Copepods
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Old December 19th 06, 02:05 PM posted to rec.aquaria.marine.reefs
KurtG
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Default Copepods (probably not)

Tidepool Geek wrote:
Spirorbis is a sedentary polychaete that builds a tightly coiled
calcium carbonate tube.


Good guess, but no. They really look like very small barnacles. My
mandarin had a great time eating them, and putting up a dust cloud in
it's wake. I don't see any right now, but all my rocks are still coated
with tiny white circles where they once were.

--Kurt