Mysid invasion!

[danielmiller82]

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Before bed tonight I went in to my living room to check on the moonlight (I had been messing with it earlier). I noticed that all of my corals were closed up and crabs were all over the place. When I turned on my moonlight I noticed something interesting. Little tiny shrimp all over the place! I have no clue where they all came from, they were just suddenly there in swarms! I haven't added anything to the tank lately, though I did just start feeding the tank inhabitants Rods Food.

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[Flippers4pups]

Wow, My Target Dragonet would love to come over for a snack! Lucky!

 

[Sao870]

WOW that is amazing.............. you have to love
Salt water tanks

 

[mozz]

I have a million of them in my fuge

 

[danielmiller82]

Hopefully some of them will take up residence in my fuge and continue the cycle.

 

[mscarpena]

Are you sure they are mysid some other shrimp may have spawned. Happened to me recently when my pistols spawned.

 

[danielmiller82]

I do have a peppermint shrimp (actually I put 3 in the tank- but have only seen one of them at a time-so either the other two died or they come out in shifts) but up close they looked nothing like peppermint shrimp larvae, and looked more like mysid, though i dont have a microscope and they were too small to see details with naked eyes.

 

[SushiGirl]

You said crabs. I and someone else recently had a hermit crab spawn a couple weeks ago. I thought maybe they were mysid (not aware I had any, but only thing I could think of) until I looked up hermit crab fry. The hermits were all active and over in the corner where the biggest concentration of fry were. I have a pregnant peppermint, but they were too small for that & their tails were the wrong shape, and she was still carrying.

 

[danielmiller82]

My hermits were crawling all around eating the little critters. But looking a little more into it, those could very well been hermit crab babies. I sure have quite a few hermits.

 

[SushiGirl]

Yeah, some of mine were eating them too. Nothing else in the tank was, though, which I thought odd. The little cardinal was even dodging them LOL.

 

[SushiGirl]

Here are the pics I found a couple weeks ago.

http://www.marinebreeder.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2525&highlight=