Small shrimp floating around??

JCOLE · Jan 27, 2019

Recently I have seen very small(tiny) what looks to be dead shrimp floating around randomly before getting sucked up or disappearing. Does anyone know what these are? I have fed Mysis shrimp but it has been about a month or so. Also, everything pretty much devours the shrimp once fed.

Thanks

Evan28395950 · Jan 27, 2019

Picture?

JCOLE · Jan 27, 2019

Evan28395950 said:
Picture?

I just tried and it disappeared before I could take the picture. I will try to get one when I see it. Is is random and not often I see them.

Evan28395950 · Jan 27, 2019

Do you usually see them at night/lights off?

JCOLE · Jan 27, 2019

Evan28395950 said:
Do you usually see them at night/lights off?

Haven't tried looking for them at night. I see them at least once a day during the day.

Evan28395950 · Jan 27, 2019

h2oh2o said:
I just tried and it disappeared before I could take the picture. I will try to get one when I see it. Is is random and not often I see them.

There’s a chance that you’re seeing copepods

malacoda · Jan 27, 2019

Might be amphipods. Try a google image search and see if they look like what you've seen your tank. If so, they're good to have and fish will chow down on them if they see them (amphipods usually come out at night will fish are sleeping). Not sure why might be seeing dead ones floating around though...

JCOLE · Jan 27, 2019

Will do. I did a 50% water change 2 weeks ago and when the water level was lower I seen a couple of them alive and scurrying around the glass.

Evan28395950 · Jan 27, 2019

Yup sounds like them

JCOLE · Jan 27, 2019

Yep that's them. I just did a google search and they do look like Amphipods. Question is how did they get there? I didn't seed my tank with them.

Evan28395950 · Jan 27, 2019

h2oh2o said:
I just tried and it disappeared before I could take the picture. I will try to get one when I see it. Is is random and not often I see them.

Via live rock or a frag

User · Jan 28, 2019

Evan28395950 said:
Via live rock or a frag

I have pods too (just saw them for first time 2 days ago) and my tank was started with dry rock, dry sand, I don’t have any frags and all my cuc was QT for 76 days and I didn’t have a single pod in the QT tank.

No idea where they came from.