Parasites or Good Bugs?

[Beverly]

Quinn,

From the research I did on isopods, beginning with the two links provided, I discovered that some are parasitic, some are detritous eaters while others are live and dead algae eaters. Isopods are a mixed bag of feeders, basically.

Was looking in the 72 gal where the bugs originated last night. Did not see any of the bugs in the photos, but did see hundreds of way smaller bugs on the uncleaned glass. Most were on the glass, but some swam into the water column. These bugs were smaller than a pin head, but I am thinking they might be offspring of the bugs we caught for the 5g test tank. Will be looking for them over the next few nights to see how they grow, and possibly add some of these bugs to the test tank.