Tiny star-like spots all over glass

This morning while looking at my tank, I noticed 100's of these tiny white spots. I looked closer at them and they consist of a little spec of white, and then about 5 or 6 little transparent "arms" extending from the disc. Any ideas? I tried to take some pics but my macro camera setting will not even pick the up..

 

copods there a good sign and the fish will eat them up

 

+1 ^^^ Pods. A good thing and nothing to worry about

 

Sounds like a hydroid to me. http://www.notlehs.com/reef/salt6/pest.jpg

 

Yes those are it. I had those in the beginning of my tank. now Ive started seeing more of those last couple days. are they bad? do mandarin goby's eat them?

 

They are bad if you have seahorses. However, they are rarely a problem in a reef tank. Mandarins don't eat them.

 

yea I just read elsewhere that the white ones arent that really a problem. thats a relief.

 

hmm.. That pic is about dead on.. Do I need to worry about these? There are literally 100's of them all over the glass..

 

I had them over a year ago when the reef tank was started for a 2 months. have been gone since a few days ago. nothing to worry about, just clean your glass if your sick of looking at them. they will die off eventually. google the white hydroid.

 

I had the same issue.

Inwall75 is spot on These are the exact same critters (they look like microscopic, transparent starfish) I had in my tank a couple of months ago. I scraped most of them off and let my filter do the rest. I saw a few in the substrate, but even they eventually died off and I haven't seen one since. Your tank is going to be great. Don't forget to post some pictures later.