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goalieman392
04/18/2007, 08:37 PM
No pics, these things are way to small, but about an hour after i turned off the lights i turned them back on to look at something and i can see hundreds of tiny 1mm larvae of some kind.. their bodies are clear with a little red insides, relatively large black dots for eyes and a defined tail that has a triangle shaped fin at the end. They are coming from the corner my newly added mandarin hangs out in, as it is where all the pod piles are. I havent seen any eggs. The mandarin has been in the tank a little over a week, but it has no mates. The tank also has a clownfish pair but they look nothing like the clowns. The only other new addition is a CBS but hes been in there about a month now. Does anyone have any idea what these lil guys are, and what i should do. The pumps are shut off now and they are just floating and swimming around my tank.

Reeses
04/18/2007, 08:44 PM
They don't look like this, do they?

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/81213Cirolanid_Isopod-med.jpg

saltycreefer
04/18/2007, 08:46 PM
Theyre probably mysids.

Reeses
04/18/2007, 08:48 PM
Try looking here:

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/pods.html

goalieman392
04/18/2007, 09:27 PM
ah they look like they are mysis shrimp lol.. well thats pretty cool then, hopefully i can get a healthy population of those growing in addition to my burgeoning pod population.

Reeses
04/18/2007, 09:33 PM
Very cool. My first post was actually sort of a joke, it's a cirolanid isopod, which having them is not funny in the least bit. :lol: I need to go to bed!