Jellyfish?

repru04 · Jun 11, 2016

I found these in my pod tank a few weeks after purchasing pods harvested from the ocean. I'm glad I didn't put the contents directly in my DT. I don't know exactly what they are. I am including tank pics and some under the microscope. So cool!

Lionfish Lair · Jun 11, 2016

It's probably medusae hydroids.

Lionfish Lair · Jun 11, 2016

Am I missing the pics, repru?

repru04 · Jun 11, 2016

Here are the pics. I'm working on catching them and getting rid of them, but Can anyone identify them for sure?

repru04 · Jun 11, 2016

They don't look like the one's I've seen posted on here before.

repru04 · Jun 11, 2016

I'm kinda proud of those microscope pics. I literally put my iPhone up to the eyepiece, lol.

Lionfish Lair · Jun 11, 2016

That's how I take my microscope pictures too. Your photos are gorgeous. There's a kajillion different "types" of medusae and I feel that's indeed what those are.

repru04 · Jun 21, 2016

Does anyone have an idea about how to get rid of them? Manual removal hasn't helped. There's so many of them.

Lionfish Lair · Jun 21, 2016

Let them take their course. They will go. Is your tank new, by chance?

repru04 · Jun 21, 2016

They're not in my DT, they're in my 10 gal pod tank. My pod tank is only 2 months old. I really don't need it though because my DT and sump are crawling with pods. I recently got a mandarin and am trying to fatten him up and ensure a good supply. Although now he eats frozen mysis and live brine!

I have nothing but pods and hydroids in the contaminated tank. I would like to move some macro algae from that tank to the sump but I can't now because it's full of bad stuff.

CNG · Feb 14, 2017

What became of the tiny jellyfish situation? I just found one in my tank and was trying to find photos online matching it, but now that I see yours, I am pretty sure they are the same. I, however, am delighted to find them and curious if yours turned out as bad as you apparently feared. Yours seem to be more developed and apparently much larger than mine, which measures 1mm now and I think was about half that when I first spotted one.

I posted some more microscope photos and videos of mine on my blog: https://votecharlie.com/blog/2017/02/tiny-jellyfish.html

reef lover · Feb 14, 2017

They're just medusea hydroids as Renee states above they will come and go as the tank matures.

Lionfish Lair · Feb 14, 2017

repru04 said:
My pod tank is only 2 months old.

That will actually change my answer a little bit. They are going to be a little harder to get rid of because you're feeding them. I had them all the time in my seahorse breeding tanks because those tanks were basically like pod havens.