Shrimp Larvae?

[Instigate]

Was about to get to bed and noticed all these little guys swimming around in my coral and invert QT. Looks like a larval state of something. Shrimp maybe? Livestock is as follows:

4 Tiger Sand Conch
3 Emerald Crabs
10 Cerith Snails
6 Nassarius Snails
1 Tiger Pistol Shrimp

The huge eyes make me think it's not just pods. Reminds me of larvae.

 

[reef lover]

Awe he' so cute...

 

[samnaz]

Not sure but I think it looks much more like a fish than shrimp larve. The only shrimp larve I have seen were from sexy shrimp and they looked and moved a lot different than the little guy in your vid. Never seen a shrimp with eyes so big either.

 

[Dsnakes]

It’s definitely got some legs in there. I hope you have somewhere to keep him and watch to see. Very cool to see what it turns out to be.

 

[Instigate]

I took the floss out of the hob so they wont get stuck in the filter, hopefully just pass right through. The one that I caught I returned back to the tank. There is no fish in there so hopefully they wont get picked off, I put some phyto in but idk what they actually eat. There were about 100 or more in there, I don't see any this morning. Should I have put them in a brine shrimp hatchery or something? If I see them again what could I do?

 

[K. Steven]

It does look like a larval shrimp in the zoea stage.

 

[taricha]

Yep. My peppermint shrimp larvae look pretty similar

 

[Maritimer]

Have you had a chat with your emerald crabs lately?

I've a sneaking suspicion this may be one of their kids.

~Bruce

 

[taricha]

Have you had a chat with your emerald crabs lately?

I've a sneaking suspicion this may be one of their kids.

~Bruce

Ooh, dang. I have emeralds too. Suddenly I'm less sure those are peppermint larvae in my video.

 

[Instigate]

Have you had a chat with your emerald crabs lately?

I've a sneaking suspicion this may be one of their kids.

~Bruce

I do have a male and a female. That would be cool too.

 

[Maggie321]

I shall call him Squishy!

Wait, if he going to have an exoskeleton, he won be squishy... hmmmm.

I shall call him Skeletor!