Accidently Caught A Bunch Of Little....

[dixaisy930]

I accidently left my sun coral "covered" all night with a plastic bowl last night to keep the shrimp from stealing food. When I turned the light on this morning and noticed about ten little shrimp-like things (I would say they are about 1/4 the size of an adult brine shrimp). I was hoping it was baby cleaners or pepps since both just hatched eggs a few days ago. Has anyone ever seen newly hatched peps or cleaners? I also think it could be skeleton shrimp. There is no color to these, and they are very skinny. I was able to save about five of them in the bowl. Any suggestions for a set-up to see if these grown into anything?

 

[Navarre]

sounds more like pods to me. Copopods or amphipods. Good natural food source

 

[dixaisy930]

I've seen copeopods and amphipods in my tank before. These look totally different. You can see a "spine" on them with four or six appendages coming off of the "spine". All of the appendages are at the front of the body, and I can't see any near the tail end.

I would try and get a pic of them but the size and my camera skills would not let that happen.

 

[Fatty]

I've seen copeopods and amphipods in my tank before. These look totally different. You can see a "spine" on them with four or six appendages coming off of the "spine". All of the appendages are at the front of the body, and I can't see any near the tail end.

I would try and get a pic of them but the size and my camera skills would not let that happen.

I thought I had baby pepps once, they turned out to be mysis shrimp, great little shrimps tho, and loved it in the sump.

I think baby pepps look identical to mysis shrimp, so wait and see if they grow, or molt..

 

[dixaisy930]

i just dumped them back in the tank. Too much work to raise them in a seperate system.

Maybe if I set up a fuge, I'll try and catch them the same way and transfer them and see what happens.