ID Worm? shrimp? other? real small

[bigbearcrain]

Took flashlight to tank last night. Saw these very little some blue some red guy swimming they we about 1/32 to 1/16 inch max. at first i just thought something dirty floating in tank hen notice they were actually following my light. More and more showed up as time went by. camera couldnt catch a pic of them. Any ideas?

 

[LilRobb]

Anything spawning in your tank?

 

[bigbearcrain]

not that i could think of. got a few damsels, a few cromies, and a couple of different single fish, lots of crabs, snails and a few peppermint shrimp a couple of skunk cleaner shrimp, large anmonie.
Only see them in my 220 gal not any of my other tanks. Im rebuilding and have introduce about 10 differnet corals.

 

[Richard101]

could have been some copepods or amphipods or mysis shrimps those would all hitchhike in on your live rock and corals

 

[bigbearcrain]

im sure theyre not copepods or amphipods those ive got plenty of and they didnt look like any mysis shrimp ive seen pics of. that was my first guess

 

[bigbearcrain]

nobody else wantg to guess

 

[keywestcoralboy]

just a stab and not the real name but you might be talkkin about sea cockaroaches,,, not kidding

 

[bigbearcrain]

the ones ive seen dont match. they look more like 1/64 inch bristolworm although they arent. they are also bright blue and deep red in color. they swim around really fast and they look like they would have 3 times the legs of a bristolworm. real neat to watch inthe middle of the night. caught myself watching for almost 2 hours last night.

 

[bigbearcrain]

sure wish i had a good camera

 

[bigbearcrain]

Still loads of the critters

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Probably epitokes, which are part of the reproductive stage of polychaete worms.

 

[bigbearcrain]

so basically ive got a bunch of baby bristle worms. good and bad.............Anybody got any ideas on how to catch the adults. dont want the dead just caught.....lol