So, I was feeding my pair of clowns today and turned off all of my pumps while they were eating and my eye was caught by about a handful of these little jellyfish looking things pumping through the water. I've never noticed these before and they are way too small to even get a pic. I'd guess they're less than a milimeter, they're clear, and they look like a little bell shape that pumps like a jellyfish. I couldn't see if they had any kind of tentacles or not because they were so small. I can't find much online about these and what they might be, but I did find something that said they could possibly be aptasia larvae? Does anyone have any experience w/ these? Are they jellies or aptasia? If it helps at all my tank has only been set up for about 2 months and it has about 50 lbs of live rock, 2 false percs, and a couple handfuls of hermits and snails. Your help is much appreciated!
tiny jellyfish?
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So, if they do turn out to be a jelly (i guess time will tell!), and they survive to be bigger, what do I do w/ them? I can't keep jellies in my tank! Do you think there's a good chance they'll survive to grow bigger? I just started working at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, and all of the jellies we have there seem to need really specific tank conditions to allow successful survival.
dustybuddy
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they def. are not jelly fish. i forget the name of them....FRIGGIN...haha....but i dunthink its jelly fish....haha sry bout that...i forget the name of the critter they call them.
AquaReeferMan
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I know what you are talking about I had them in my tank for a little. I dont see them anymore I guess they became a snack. I know they are not aptasia, but Im not sure what they are. Just wanted to chine in and let you know I had some to. Very fun to watch them pump around the tank.
Hmmmm...I don't know what they are. They definitely don't look like any rotifer I've ever seen, and they don't really look like that other thing someone suggested...I forgot the name already. But thanks for the suggestions! I thought of a better way to describe them...they look like those little ghost guys in pac-man, minus the eyeballs and colors! I turned off the pumps again and found like 10 of them. I think they're multiplying. Ha...and thanks for the reassuring fact about those tiny, super lethal jellies! W/ my luck, that's what I have in my tank and I'm going to die the next time I put my hand in there. 
nctommy
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The lethal jelly fish refered to by doox00 is the box jelly fish. I doubt that it what it is but you can search them. I did and here is the first one on the list
http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/jellyfish.htm
http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/jellyfish.htm
doox00
Premium Member
these are not the box jelly fish, they are very very tiny, very hard to see, it took the scientists months to actually find and catch some specimens. They are very very poisonious.
Trying to find the episode on discoverys webpage, no luck though. I did find some stuff about it though, they called it the Irukandji Jellyfish.
http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/irukandji.htm
http://goaustralia.about.com/cs/practicalinfo/a/irukandji.htm
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