Copepods or a guppy ?

[ash9965]

lets here the votes ?

 

[fishybizzness]

Definitely look like a fish fry of some sort.

 

[Pbh-reef]

Definitely look like a fish fry of some sort.

Yup!

 

[BootyPup]

I'd say some sort of fry. Interested to hear what it is.

 

[Heliarc19]

You have mollies? Nvm just saw your fish list, look like fish to me

 

[ash9965]

could it possibly be mysis or mysid shrimp ?

 

[Pbh-reef]

Can you put a net in the fuge and do some scooping? I used to collect plankton at the beach with ladies stockings and a baby food jar, maybe try something like that if your nets holes are too big? Getting one of the creatures out of the fuge would help. Alternatively- can you Get a better camera to take a video and post it on YouTube?

 

[ash9965]

Can you put a net in the fuge and do some scooping? I used to collect plankton at the beach with ladies stockings and a baby food jar, maybe try something like that if your nets holes are too big? Getting one of the creatures out of the fuge would help. Alternatively- can you Get a better camera to take a video and post it on YouTube?

Whatever they are they are doing well so I hate to mess it up by trying to scoop them out . But I am starting to doubt they are clown fish fry because they are at least 5 days old ( since i noticed them ? ) and they are still clear like guppy babies. At what point due clown fish fry start having color ?

 

[Pbh-reef]

Other option- submerge a small water bottle with a bit of food - critters should swim into the hole and you can pull the bottle out. You can use the opening or put the cap on and cut a hole in with a knife (worked to catch fish in tide pools)

 

[ash9965]

actually they are in the last chamber of my refugium with some chaeto , some mangrove plants those are the red roots you see in video and my return pump . Amazed they haven't gotten sucked in . New development saw some bristle worms in there as well. Not much space to deal with I would have to pull out mangrove and chaeto juts to get a net or small bottle in. Sometimes things are better left as is. But if they do start having color and we can confirm they are clowns it will be worth the effort to pull them out .

 

[GoldeneyeRet]

Look like mysids to me, but I've never bred fish.

 

[ash9965]

Look like mysids to me, but I've never bred fish.

You may be right . Time will tell ...

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Those are mysid shrimp.

 

[Coral_North]

Any updates?

 

[ash9965]

Definitely Mysids no color or noticeable growth - refugium is now loaded with them so all in all disappointed its not clown babies but hey still a good thing for the system

 

[ash9965]

if you are wondering about the orange roots those are from mangrove plants I have growing in the fuge