PODs?.... Video

[paddyob]

I made this little video today.

These are in my refugium that is attached to my 20 gallon Mandarin tank.

Are they PODs or something else?

I know the video is not HQ... it was shot with a PENTAX W90... but you will get the point.

If anyone has ideas, let me know.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL4DAwEs-D4&feature=youtu.be

[ScubaSteve]

Quite looks like it, and a ton of them at that. They look a bit like baby cleaner shrimp when they hatch but sometimes they look like pods. Either way, you've got mandarin food.

[paddyob]

Quite looks like it, and a ton of them at that. They look a bit like baby cleaner shrimp when they hatch but sometimes they look like pods. Either way, you've got mandarin food.


Whatever they are.... they have been in there for months. I have just not gotten around to posting anything.

There are no shrimp of any sort in my tank.

[paddyob]

Any other input on these little guys?

[cale262]

look like mysis to me...


http://mblaquaculture.com/assets/images/content/photo_Mysidopsis_bahia_Opposum_shrimp_510px.jpg

[cale262]

or, copods...

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/Arthropods/Copepod/femeggsacs.jpg

[paddyob]

look like mysis to me...


http://mblaquaculture.com/assets/images/content/photo_Mysidopsis_bahia_Opposum_shrimp_510px.jpg

They are super tiny... like really tiny. With the naked eye they are just small specks zooming about.

I have never seen living Mysis in my tank... nor have I intruduced any live foods..... hmm... except Reef Bugs.... which they say "hatch".

I have not dosed that in months and months so who knows.

They have not grown and I always have them. I am not sure if this eliminates shrimp or not.

[cale262]

I added "reefbugs" to my system a while back, I have loads of Mysis running around in my sump just as your video shows...I also have amphipods & copods but I never really see them until right after I feed the DT, then they too are all over the place, funny to watch when they grab a larger piece of food and hold on to it with all they have.

amphipods..
http://coralfoods.com/store/images/categories/Amphipod1.jpg

[NU-2reef]

Calanoid copepods

[paddyob]

I added "reefbugs" to my system a while back, I have loads of Mysis running around in my sump just as your video shows...I also have amphipods & copods but I never really see them until right after I feed the DT, then they too are all over the place, funny to watch when they grab a larger piece of food and hold on to it with all they have.

amphipods..
http://coralfoods.com/store/images/categories/Amphipod1.jpg

Yea I have countless in my 70. If I get up in the middle if the night they are all over.

I'll have to scope the 20 one night and see how many larger pods there are.

[bignose]

Pat I seen one in your tank about a cm long, I've never seen one that big before.