Baby clown fish?

[jeffreed39]

I just noticed yesterday in one of my pieces of live rock consisting of many deep holes that there are very tiny things swimming back and forth..... I was wondering if they could be baby clown fish????

 

[Rippinfrags]

Not a chance, most likely you are seeing a pod of some sort.

 

[worm5406]

Take a picture.

Maybe feather dusters.

 

[jeffreed39]

Tried to take a picture but they are so small they don't show up in the picture, they are the size of a fine pen tip and yes they are in with some pods but instead of crawling around they swim left to right constantly just zigzagging all the time in a lot of the openings just on this one rock. I'll have to see if they get bigger, anyone know of any pods that swim like that?

 

[OrionN]

Those are mysis shrimp. At night looking with a flash light, they looks like cars with two headlight zooming around

 

[jeffreed39]

how would i get baby mysis shrimp if I never put eggs in the tank? just curious...

 

[OrionN]

They come with the live rock

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

I am with orionN,sounds like you are seeing mysis,they reproduce in our tanks.

 

[jeffreed39]

well is that and the fact I have a pretty big population of copepods a good sign I could keep a mandarin alive?

 

[Rippinfrags]

well is that and the fact I have a pretty big population of copepods a good sign I could keep a mandarin alive?

No, you need to do more research.

 

[OrionN]

Mandarin is easy to keep alive as long as you get plenty of food for it. Likely your tank would be OK if you don't put any
wrasses
other mandarin
small angels
dottybacks
Marine Beta
in this tank.
These fish tend to compete with the mandarin for the live food in the tank.

 

[soldier.1102]

I had some mysis shrimp show up do the flash light thing that will tell you for sure....

 

[fnicklaus]

or rotifers?