ID these little critters?

OpenOcean33 · Sep 9, 2019

I did a water change tonight and went down stairs to check on the tank and put the light on and saw these little guys everywhere! they look like little brine shrimp. Ive never added live brine shrimp before but I do feed frozen brine shrimp but there is not way these could come back right like thaw out and keep living? I've never added brine shrimp and ive never seem them before.

Paleozoic_reefer · Sep 9, 2019

Wow...any chance they could be fish fry from some breeding pair in your tank?

OpenOcean33 · Sep 9, 2019

Paleozoic_reefer said:
Wow...any chance they could be fish fry from some breeding pair in your tank?

I have a pair of bullet hole clowns for about a year and a half. Its hard to get a very close look on the camera but to me they look like little shrimp. I can try and get a close up picture but it goes out of focus. they are so tiny.

Paleozoic_reefer · Sep 9, 2019

I've never had my clowns spawn so I'm no expert...but these really look like fry; at least to me!

redfishbluefish · Sep 9, 2019

They are pods....a good thing. I can't see from your picture, but if you say they look like shrimp, I'd guess amphipods. Could also be copepods, but first guess is amphipods. Keep them...they are good and you're fish will love you for giving them a supply of food.

OpenOcean33 · Sep 10, 2019

redfishbluefish said:
They are pods....a good thing. I can't see from your picture, but if you say they look like shrimp, I'd guess amphipods. Could also be copepods, but first guess is amphipods. Keep them...they are good and you're fish will love you for giving them a supply of food.

They could be! They are just absolutely swarming everywhere I've never seen and thing like it lol.

shred5 · Sep 10, 2019

They look like copepods..They will swim towards a light shined in the water at night. I have seen it many times..

The video is small though and it could be something else. Any shrimps? My shrimp will spawn every couple of weeks and the tank is full of larvae at night.

Could be fish larvae but those look like they swim way to good but they are also attracted to light.