Copepods or a guppy ?

ash9965 · Mar 8, 2018

Sorry don't have a picture will try and get one latter but not sure it will come out as they are so small. Long story short looking in my refugium yesterday and noticed quite a few copepods ..nothing new there I have seen them a thousand times but then suddenly I saw quite a few swimming fish that look like baby freshwater guppies- extremely tiny but they were free swimming and had a visible clear tail fin . they look nothing like the pods I normally see and have tons of that look more like shrimp and cling to chaeto walking around. These were maybe 1/16 of an inch long at most . Could they be a type of pod I am not familiar with or possible some baby clown fish that hatched ?? any thoughts ??

Dsnakes · Mar 8, 2018

Picture would be best! What fish do you have in your system? I hope we can figure it out

ash9965 · Mar 9, 2018

I have some skunk clowns , a naso tang . cleaner wrasse , watchman goby , foxface , cleaner shrimp and a couple of emerald crabs

Skynyrd Fish · Mar 9, 2018

clown babies?? Look for eggs. have you seen them mating?

ash9965 · Mar 9, 2018

Possible I work a lot so not sure but clowns are in main tank - these are in the refugium . I guess its possible but I always thought you needed rotifers and brine shrimp to be successful . Wouldn't that be neat if they could survive an overflow / skimmer / pump and thrive in just a normal refugium set-up with live rock and chaeto

Naoxyn · Mar 9, 2018

I definitely am tagging along to find out what they are. Baby clowns in the fuge would be awesome.

ash9965 · Mar 9, 2018

agreed maybe the moderators should move to the clownfish forum ..LoL

Dsnakes · Mar 9, 2018

ash9965 said:
agreed maybe the moderators should move to the clownfish forum ..LoL

#mods - can we move this over?

GoldeneyeRet · Mar 9, 2018

Without a picture I cant tell, but I'd bet they are something along the lines of mysis or glass shrimp

LobsterOfJustice · Mar 10, 2018

Extremely unlikely they are clown larvae. My vote is something like a mysid shrimp.

ash9965 · Mar 12, 2018

OK here is the long awaited video . Its lousy I know I am no George Lucas be patient they start appearing around 25-35 seconds in . Let me know your thoughts if I get positive reviews I will start as a new thread in the clown fish forum ... Here it is

Unfortunately I am getting the following error when I try and upload it . I took the video on a samsung phone --- any ideas ?? Thanks

The following error occurred
The uploaded file does not have an allowed extension.

killr66tb · Mar 12, 2018

I'm so excited

Pbh-reef · Mar 12, 2018

killr66tb said:
I'm so excited

Me too! Rooting for baby clowns!

ash9965 · Mar 12, 2018

anyone know how to upload an MP4 or what I should to convert it to in order to upload

ash9965 · Mar 12, 2018

anyone ??

NanoCrazed · Mar 12, 2018

Depending on which phone, you might be able to click on the GIF options and make a short 6 sec clip

ash9965 · Mar 12, 2018

let me know if this works

NanoCrazed · Mar 12, 2018

Whoa! Those are fries for sure!

No mysid of pod I can think of swims like that!

aKlevans · Mar 12, 2018

It works. But it is a bit small.

I can't really help with the identification, but for everyone else viewing, right click on the gif and press "open image in new tab", then crank up the zoom, it will help you see better.