Malting Copepods? and tiny to giant snails?

[Neild]

I've had ad have copepods living in my live rock ever since I've started, they
were tiny tiny things, I saw what i tought was a malt of one (like a tiny
shrimp) in the tank, about 6-8mm long, do they get this big?
Also the same
with snails, I've had and have tiny ones, about 1-2mm big, and a few that are
6-8m big and getting bigger.

Is this a good sign the tank is doing well,
or just a normal thing, and how big will the copepods and snails
get?

Cheers,

neil

[barracuda]

Shrimp like moults will come from amphipods they like a big brother to copepods, good guys and a food source to fish. have some around 10-12mm max.
hard to say on the snails without a picture

[Mitzevovi]

Probably amphipods you can see moulting, curved back they have, Copepods are teeny, prolly 1mm -2mm

[Inklinkerman]

agree amphipods, or the even bigger isopods. copepods are really small, only a mm or so.

and yes it's a good sign the tank is maturing.

[Neild]

ah the malts are curved backs ones.
here is a pic of the kind of snails..

[Neild]

they are collonista snails.