Ahhhhh! Baby clowns hatching?

[this is me]

So I was playing with the LED on my phone on the tank with my night off and then all of a sudden a swarm of little clear thing starts to come toward the light. I looked at it closely and took some macro pictures.
Could my clowns be secretly laying eggs behind the gigantea? Do these look like clowns fries? I know they're very tiny and hard to tell.

 

[sbabs]

That is very cool. Got any rotifers handy? Those guys are hunngggry!

 

[this is me]

I'm not ready for any kind of breeding. This is not suppose to happen. I've never seen the clown laid any eggs. They are the same size clowns that like to rub against the rock and each other.

 

[crooks]

Got any shrimp in your tank? They dont look like clown fry to me.

 

[this is me]

No shrimps. Only emerald crabs. 3 anthias(two females, one turning male). A yellow tang and a leopard wrasse.

 

[flameangel9]

thats not clownfish larvae

 

[mrbigshot]

do you have any snails?

 

[this is me]

Yes. My trochus was putting out smoke a month ago. I see baby snails everywhere on the rock.
These don't look like clown larvae to me either but it's the clowns that I can think of that can reproduce.

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I agree those don't look like clown fish fry,some have their tails straight and others are curled under the body.Looks like crab larvea.

 

[this is me]

Crabs? They would have multiple legs? no?

 

[jbax]

also clown larvae hatch after the lights go out. and by the time the lights came back on the next day. the larvae would be in the filter system or a snack for the other tank critters.

 

[trueblackpercula]

They do not look like clownfish sorry... do you have a spawning pair of clowns? did you see them lay down eggs? looks like something other then clownfish larva..got a ral close up?

 

[this is me]

They do not look like clownfish sorry... do you have a spawning pair of clowns? did you see them lay down eggs? looks like something other then clownfish larva..got a ral close up?

Don't need to be sorry. I was hoping that it's not anyways. I don't see my pair laying eggs or anything but who knows what they're doing behind the gigantea. Just want to check if these are clowns or not so I can set up a breeding station. The larvaes are gone after an hour or so.

 

[this is me]

Can anyone verify what these are? It's happening again.

 

[doylef4i]

They look like emerald crab larvae.The will spawn often.Nice find.

 

[this is me]

Thanks for the response guys.
It is crab larvae. I think it's from the emeralds. Found this site on crab larvae and it looks identical to what I saw.
http://www.tafi.org.au/zooplankton/imagekey/malacostraca/eucarida/decapoda/crab_larva.html

 

[WXB]

I have been wanting what you have going on for a long time now. good luck. did you buy any new rock?

 

[this is me]

Nope. Just my emerald crabs that are in the tank for a long time now.
This shows the stages of a blue crab.
http://www.bluecrab.info/lifecycle.html

 

[jonnybravo22]

Already answered i see; not clownfish --

since that's taken care of, can you tell us what equipment and settings you used to capture such awesome macro shots!?

 

[this is me]

Hi Jonny, these are emerald crabs for sure.