what are these things simming around in my tank?

[Bk2Reefin]

I have a 14 gal bio cube next to the pc, just looked over and noticed all these little things swimming around in the tank so I shut down the pump and kicked on the lights n grabbed my phone.......

http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r614/bk2reefin/2515d1ad.jpg

http://i1174.photobucket.com/albums/r614/bk2reefin/1786043c.jpg

Had a tank for couple years before this and never noticed anything like it.

tanks maybe a month old after initial cycle...

[Denbf58]

do you have shrimp in your tank looks like shrimp larvae

[Bk2Reefin]

yea I did notice one had been really fat last couple of days, the fish and filter got the most of them Id say cause within a hour of spotting them I couldn't find anymore.

[GeorgeMonnatJr]

Lucky, you got baby shrimp :) Mine spawned but I don't think any made it. Some made it to the refugium section of my sump, but unfortunately for them I was raising some fish fry in there at the same time.

[cloak]

yea I did notice one had been really fat last couple of days, the fish and filter got the most of them Id say cause within a hour of spotting them I couldn't find anymore.

What kind of shrimp do you have in your tank?

[LobsterOfJustice]

Could be cleaner/peppermint/fire shrimp larvae, assuming you have two individuals of one of those types of shrimp. When one is carrying eggs you can see it, their underside where they normall fold up their swimmerettes gets full of a large glob of tiny yellow dots (kind of looks like part of their abdomen if you weren't used to seeing them without eggs).

The larvae are difficult to raise (several planktonic stages, etc), you won't be finding baby shrimp resembling adults in the tank.

[cloak]

Here's a good article on peppermint shrimp. I'm assuming it would pretty much be the same for both a cleaner & fire shrimp when it comes down to breeding.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/4/aafeature

[GeorgeMonnatJr]

Here's a good article on peppermint shrimp. I'm assuming it would pretty much be the same thing for both a cleaner & fire shrimp when it comes down to breeding.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2004/4/aafeature

Thanks for that link. Interesting, but it dissuaded me from trying to breed and raise my Sexy Shrimp. Too much work and $$. At least the young from my Peppermints, Cleaners and Sexy Shrimp are good live food for other stuff.

[Bk2Reefin]

yea I wont be raising any shrimp, I made sure to kick the lights on so that everything got a nice lil midnight snack, I am sure rest are in filter, I do have about 6 still alive in a test tube.

peppermint shrimp is only shrimp in tank, that and 2 true percs

[LobsterOfJustice]

Just one peppermint shrimp in your tank?

[Bk2Reefin]

na there's 2 sorry I meant peppermint shrimp as type....

Here's a video I took that night afterwards........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcDBQ9T0iuY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcDBQ9T0iuY)

[SushiGirl]

Those are pretty good pics for never having seen them before. I spent years taking pics of them every couple months & yours are as good as what I ever got LOL!

[Bk2Reefin]

Those are pretty good pics for never having seen them before. I spent years taking pics of them every couple months & yours are as good as what I ever got LOL!


yea I think I even wiped the dust off the camera on the phone before I took them lol Nothing a Iphone cant do I guess.


My clowns I think paired up quickly, they show all the signs that there past the sex determination and are trying to mate I think, I may get a video of the fluttering, nipping and chasing, I recently moved everything to this bio cube from another tank and they cant find a happy place for them as they was hosting the corner of a bare bottom 10 gal for a couple weeks, now they got the sand cleared down to the glass in the same corner but dont seemed pleased with it, I am really thinking about putting a couple small clay pots in to see if they will host one and see if anything further happens.

ones way bigger than other and shows that she is the BOSS of the tank, they was about 4/5 of them in the tank at LFS all looked good so I picked biggest 2

[Bk2Reefin]

they kinda look like little birds in the pics lol

[Bk2Reefin]

also the difference in the corner now is on the 10g it was square corner, now its a round edge not really a corner anymore.......

[Bk2Reefin]

I really haven't done anything but water changes, and I let the live rock cycle its self with ammonia & nitrites completely gone with nitrates nearly gone, then started adding a small cuc, week later 2 fish, then about another week I added the 2 shrimp.

been keeping salinity at about 1.025ish

also have a couple sea squirts and other filter feeders that come out and feed on a regular basis.