Whaaaaaat are these?!

[Jadgrider]

About 2hrs after the lights turned off I peeked in the tank to check on some new additions and these guys were there. What are they?!

 

[Cstar_BC]

Video isn’t working for me ... can you take a picture ?

 

[Jadgrider]

Video isn’t working for me ... can you take a picture ?

They move too quickly and are too small to get a pic . I'll see if I can grab a screen shot from video.

 

[Jadgrider]

This is the best screenshot I could get. Sorry!

 

[NashobaTek]

Pods of some type maybe.

 

[ThePurple12]

Can you take a clearer picture?

They look like baby shrimp of some kind.

 

[Jadgrider]

These are from screenshots and the best I can get. Whatever they are, my cardinal is loving them.

 

[ThePurple12]

Do you have any shrimp in the tank?

 

[F i s h y]

Mysid shrimp... free food. Good addition to free CUC.

 

[PTXReef]

Mysid shrimp... free food. Good addition to free CUC.

+1 on Mysid shrimp! I got them into my tank when feeding frozen PE Mysis and they hatched. Can usually only see them at night tho but pretty cool and the fish love them!

 

[ThePurple12]

+1 on Mysid shrimp! I got them into my tank when feeding frozen PE Mysis and they hatched. Can usually only see them at night tho but pretty cool and the fish love them!

Hold on, PE mysis are freshwater!

 

[canadianeh]

Hold on, PE mysis are freshwater!

not sure if it is typo but the earlier posts said “mysid “ not mysis

 

[ThePurple12]

not sure if it is typo but the earlier posts said “mysid “ not mysis

Aren't they the same thing?

 

[NashobaTek]

No from what I've read mysid shrimp are saltwater type

 

[4tanks]

Hold on, PE mysis are freshwater!

There are fw and sw variants of both

 

[ThePurple12]

Well, don't want to start an argument, but "mysid" refers to anything from the family Mysidae, and PE mysis are harvested from freshwater lakes. ;Cat

 

[4tanks]

Ha ha I got 4 kids and a wife for arguing with there seems to be a lot of differing articles when googled