My First Baby Shrimp............... But!

[Brainjuice]

Well I was taking a little look in my nano Shrimp tank last night and noticed I've got my first ever baby shrimp!!

I think it's one of the "Sakura Red Fire shrimp".  It must be about 5 or 6mm long.  But because I was looking hard for more I noticed something else!!!!!  There's something else living in there with the shrimp!!!!!  On the wood there are a load of very very small white things!!  When I look at them with a magnifying glass, I still can't really quite tell what they are but I think they look like tiny little snails, but they move far to fast to be snails!!  I don't think there more shrimp, I just don't know what they are.
 
Does anyone have any idea's?  Should I just leave them, or should I try to get rid of them?  Or should I just see what they grow into just in case there more shrimps?
 

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I think they are the same thing that I have... someone named them once... they are basically some sort of water bugs... I can't remember what they are called... harmless though and fish can eat them.

 

[Brainjuice]

I think they are the same thing that I have... someone named them once... they are basically some sort of water bugs... I can't remember what they are called... harmless though and fish can eat them.

 
I'll maybe have to get some fish in there to eat them then!!

 

[scotty]

planaria

 

[PrairieSunflower]

Just remember, if your baby shrimp are really tiny the fish might eat them as well.

 

[snowflake311]

planaria

  Yup could be that. Could be another type of worm. Most of these tiny bug things found in the shrimp tanks are harmless and some help keep the tank clean and are just part of the eco system. 
 
I have had a few shrimp only tanks and one of them I think I over fed it and my filtration was not very good. Any ways That tank had LOTS of weird tiny bugs living in it.  
 
Now sure I can use this link. But it is a good one for bugs. 
http/www.plantedtank.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40061

 

[Brainjuice]

Just remember, if your baby shrimp are really tiny the fish might eat them as well.

It's only a little 21 liter tank and about 2 or 3 liters of that are taken up by filter anyway, so if I do get any fish for it they'll be very small.  Maybe Green Neon's, Dwarf Maculatus Rasbora or something like that I think.
 

 

[Brainjuice]

planaria

 
 

planaria

  Yup could be that. Could be another type of worm. Most of these tiny bug things found in the shrimp tanks are harmless and some help keep the tank clean and are just part of the eco system. 
 
I have had a few shrimp only tanks and one of them I think I over fed it and my filtration was not very good. Any ways That tank had LOTS of weird tiny bugs living in it.  
 
Now sure I can use this link. But it is a good one for bugs. 
http/www.plantedtank.net/forums/showthread.php?t=40061

Yes there are some planaria in there, but I'm still not sure what the little dot type things are!
 
Your link is very good.
 
The good news though is........................................... its not just one baby shrimp!!  It's two!!!!!!! 

And I found a really good full exoskeleton in the tank.  That looks really good!
 

 

[DreamertK]

Usually they have more than just one or two fry. You'll probably see a bunch of them in a month. Just the other day I looked in my tank and was shocked at how many shrimp there became.

 

[Brainjuice]

I hope your right, I'd love to have a load more, as I've had a lot of bad luck with the shrimp over the past couple of months or so!  I only have 4 and I think 2 babies left, after having about 20 odd!!  But I don't know what happened to them, as there's nothing in there to eat them.
 

 

[Brainjuice]

http/s1295.photobucket.com/user/Brainjuice99/media/smallShrimp_zpsa580e449.jpg.html
 
How cool is this exoskeleton?

 

[DreamertK]

They kind of gross me out, despite finding one every day or so, mostly due to their jelly consistency.

  It'd be fine if the shrimps actually ate them, but I think my water is hard enough that they don't need to and therefore just leave them there until I collect them.

 

[Brainjuice]

Na. I think there quite cool really! A perfect image of the shrimp.

 

[yoshimitsuspeed]

Is this what you are talking about? If so then I am pretty sure they are baby shrimp. I have never looked a them under a microscope but I have noticed a direct correlation to seeing a big bloom of these and shortly after noticing an increase in small shrimp.
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH3je2qH5qo

 

[DreamertK]

Newborns sure are small. Barely visible to the naked eye for a few weeks.
 
That guy sure does have a lot of shrimpletes.