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[Pazil]

Well I don't really know how to explain these hundreds of babies in my tank...but SOMETHING hatched tonight.... Anyway just after lights out.. I took a little flash light for my nightly inspection and when I looked in the tank I saw what looked like hundreds of small whiteish colored things swimming around. If I could decribe them I would say they are approx. 2-3mm long with a body that is about 1mm think and then a tail that extends backwards about 3-4mm. They are swarming in the tank like flys do in the air. The clowns are going crazy eating them.

Sorry for the bad description ... I tried to take a pic but they are not turning out at all.... Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[banditpowdercoat]

Sounds like Amphipods. They are good eats for fish :D

[marie]

Well I don't really know how to explain these hundreds of babies in my tank...but SOMETHING hatched tonight.... Anyway just after lights out.. I took a little flash light for my nightly inspection and when I looked in the tank I saw what looked like hundreds of small whiteish colored things swimming around. If I could decribe them I would say they are approx. 2-3mm long with a body that is about 1mm think and then a tail that extends backwards about 3-4mm. They are swarming in the tank like flys do in the air. The clowns are going crazy eating them.

Sorry for the bad description ... I tried to take a pic but they are not turning out at all.... Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Do you have hermit crabs or cleaner shrimp?

[noirsphynx]

Look like anything here?
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchpods.html

[Pazil]

Do you have hermit crabs or cleaner shrimp?

Both!!

[Pazil]

Look like anything here?
http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchpods.html

Not really but it is hard to tell.... they are so small.... most of them seem to have gotten eaten pretty quick. I did notice some orangish colored sacks on the LR over the last 2 weeks... I will try to get a pic of these in the morning. I also noticed a greenish colored something or other in one of my zoa colonies... I will also post a pic of this in the morning.


Thanks

[Borderjumper]

Its a cleaner shrimp spawn. The fish go nuts eating them dont they!:mrgreen:

[Delphinus]

Peppermints, cleaners, etc. - as long as you have 2 they'll spawn every few weeks. The babies look like miniature versions of the parents. They don't last very long. Life is harsh in the ocean .. and occasionally reef tanks..

[kien]

Yup, sounds like the peppers or cleaners. I have 3 sets of each for that purpose. Spawning and providing extra food for everyone. They are handy because the peppers and cleaners alternate weeks that they will spawn like clockwork :biggrin: They remind me of sea monkeys.