Amphipod? Bad guy?

[Nooreef]

Tiny guy looks and moves around like a mouse with a long tail and two black dots (eyes)?

This is best pic of him, as it is hard to focus on camera.

Any ideas what it is? Thanks!

 

[Kershaw]

Amphipods good. But it kinda looks like a mysis

 

[Sabellafella]

Tiny guy looks and moves around like a mouse with a long tail and two black dots (eyes)?

This is best pic of him, as it is hard to focus on camera.

Any ideas what it is? Thanks!

Lol actually a baby hermit crab, witch are more common in our aquarium. They look like little mysis shrimp

 

[Rip Van Winkle]

Was gonna say it looks like brine shrimp but yeah I agree with the baby hermit crab. Good eye.

 

[Nooreef]

Oh mysis. Here's a gif version to show it move around. Is he safe to keep in the sump?

 

[Sabellafella]

Was gonna say it looks like brine shrimp but yeah I agree with the baby hermit crab. Good eye.

I see these little shrimps in everyones tanks, usually first signs point to mysis witch 99%

Oh mysis. Here's a gif version to show it move around. Is he safe to keep in the sump?

Lol aw, do you have multiple hermit crabs in your tank?

 

[Nooreef]

I see these little shrimps in everyones tanks, usually first signs point to mysis witch 99%

Lol aw, do you have multiple hermit crabs in your tank?

No hermit crabs are in my tank.

 

[Rip Van Winkle]

almost had an epileptic seizure with that .gif LOL

No hermit crabs are in my tank.

I see these little shrimps in everyones tanks, usually first signs point to mysis witch 99%

Lol aw, do you have multiple hermit crabs in your tank?

Okay then I take it back, bad eye for you, Sir!!

 

[Sabellafella]

No hermit crabs are in my tank.

Lolol did you start with live rock?

 

[Sabellafella]

almost had an epileptic seizure with that .gif LOL






Okay then I take it back, bad eye for you, Sir!!

I mean hey, alot of people usually post this little fella thinking its a mysis type of shrimp. But are usually hermit crab babys.

 

[telsonman]

I believe its a mysid, not mysis

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Awesome shrimp. Perfectly safe.
Great gif.

 

[Sallstrom]

We have a lot of them in our refugiums, doesn't seem to do any harm. Have tried to collect and start a culture in a bucket but it didn't work out.
Also used them as first food for newborn cuttlefish

/ David