Urgent ID Needed.

goalieman392 · 04/18/2007, 08:37 PM

No pics, these things are way to small, but about an hour after i turned off the lights i turned them back on to look at something and i can see hundreds of tiny 1mm larvae of some kind.. their bodies are clear with a little red insides, relatively large black dots for eyes and a defined tail that has a triangle shaped fin at the end. They are coming from the corner my newly added mandarin hangs out in, as it is where all the pod piles are. I havent seen any eggs. The mandarin has been in the tank a little over a week, but it has no mates. The tank also has a clownfish pair but they look nothing like the clowns. The only other new addition is a CBS but hes been in there about a month now. Does anyone have any idea what these lil guys are, and what i should do. The pumps are shut off now and they are just floating and swimming around my tank.

Reeses · 04/18/2007, 08:44 PM

They don't look like this, do they?

saltycreefer · 04/18/2007, 08:46 PM

Theyre probably mysids.

Reeses · 04/18/2007, 08:48 PM

Try looking here:

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/pods.html

goalieman392 · 04/18/2007, 09:27 PM

ah they look like they are mysis shrimp lol.. well thats pretty cool then, hopefully i can get a healthy population of those growing in addition to my burgeoning pod population.

Reeses · 04/18/2007, 09:33 PM

Very cool. My first post was actually sort of a joke, it's a cirolanid isopod, which having them is not funny in the least bit.

I need to go to bed!

04/18/2007, 08:37 PM	#1
goalieman392 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Georgia Posts: 82	Urgent ID Needed. No pics, these things are way to small, but about an hour after i turned off the lights i turned them back on to look at something and i can see hundreds of tiny 1mm larvae of some kind.. their bodies are clear with a little red insides, relatively large black dots for eyes and a defined tail that has a triangle shaped fin at the end. They are coming from the corner my newly added mandarin hangs out in, as it is where all the pod piles are. I havent seen any eggs. The mandarin has been in the tank a little over a week, but it has no mates. The tank also has a clownfish pair but they look nothing like the clowns. The only other new addition is a CBS but hes been in there about a month now. Does anyone have any idea what these lil guys are, and what i should do. The pumps are shut off now and they are just floating and swimming around my tank.

04/18/2007, 08:44 PM	#2
Reeses Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 606	They don't look like this, do they? __________________ There are two systems at work in every tank. There's the system you created and the system IT created. Current Tank Info: Just left :0(

04/18/2007, 08:46 PM	#3
saltycreefer Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Fairfield,CT Posts: 1,696	Theyre probably mysids. __________________ I love being a turtle!!! Current Tank Info: Got out of tanks for a little while.

04/18/2007, 08:48 PM	#4
Reeses Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 606	Try looking here: http://www.melevsreef.com/id/pods.html __________________ There are two systems at work in every tank. There's the system you created and the system IT created. Current Tank Info: Just left :0(

04/18/2007, 09:33 PM	#6
Reeses Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Florida Posts: 606	Very cool. My first post was actually sort of a joke, it's a cirolanid isopod, which having them is not funny in the least bit. I need to go to bed! __________________ There are two systems at work in every tank. There's the system you created and the system IT created. Current Tank Info: Just left :0(

04/18/2007, 09:27 PM	#5
goalieman392 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Georgia Posts: 82	ah they look like they are mysis shrimp lol.. well thats pretty cool then, hopefully i can get a healthy population of those growing in addition to my burgeoning pod population.