What is this? A shrimp?

[q8cyu]

Hi, I just found that there were shrimp like things floating around my tank. There were hundreds if not thousands of them. You was able to catch a few and take some pictures at 4x magnification, 10x magnification, just in the water droplet for scale, and 3x zoomed on my phone.
Any idea what they might be?
Thanks.

 

[Kasrift]

Do you have two cleaner shrimp, looks like when they spawn. Mine spawned like clockwork.

 

[Goaway]

Is that what mysis look like up close?

Hi,

what horror movie did that escape from?

 

[Goaway]

Do you have two cleaner shrimp, looks like when they spawn. Mine spawned like clockwork.

Could be cleanwr shrimp spawn. I never seen them magnified.

Very cool pics though.

 

[Kasrift]

Otherwise, a type of mysid shrimp?

 

[q8cyu]

Do you have two cleaner shrimp, looks like when they spawn. Mine spawned like clockwork.

Yeah, I have a blood shrimp (Lysmata debelius) and a skunk cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinesis).

 

[Kasrift]

Yeah, I have a blood shrimp (Lysmata debelius) and a skunk cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinesis).

I meant two of the same kind so they'd breed. These are probably mysid and are highly desirable and people sell them. There are lots in the tanks at my local store which is AquaSD. https://www.aquaculturenurseryfarms.com/live-saltwater-fish-food/mysid/

 

[Sleeping Giant]

looks like it, awesome stuff

 

[q8cyu]

I meant two of the same kind so they'd breed. These are probably mysid and are highly desirable and people sell them. There are lots in the tanks at my local store which is AquaSD. https://www.aquaculturenurseryfarms.com/live-saltwater-fish-food/mysid/

if they are mysid I have no idea how they could of gotten in. Unless they are in the plankton (phyto feast) I add a few times a week.

 

[Kasrift]

if they are mysid I have no idea how they could of gotten in. Unless they are in the plankton (phyto feast) I add a few times a week.

Hitchhikers on coral plugs.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Haha, this takes me back to 2008 when I asked the same question.

Those are some type of pod, probably amphipods. Great part of your micro fauna

 

[q8cyu]

Hitchhikers on coral plugs.

Could they survive a freshwater dip and coral dip, also I mostly cut off frog plugs with exception to a few that can’t be tacked off

 

[Kasrift]

Could they survive a freshwater dip and coral dip, also I mostly cut off frog plugs with exception to a few that can’t be tacked off

Depends on the dip. I've killed a few on frag plugs from AquaSD. If I saw them first I would have used a pipette to move them to the display.

 

[Mr_Knightley]

Yeah, I have a blood shrimp (Lysmata debelius) and a skunk cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinesis).

I'm sure they could successfully hybridize, I've seen much further species cross. Those are definitely shrimp larvae, if they were mysids they would be on the ground and in the rockwork.

 

[q8cyu]

I'm sure they could successfully hybridize, I've seen much further species cross. Those are definitely shrimp larvae, if they were mysids they would be on the ground and in the rockwork.

They were floating around in the water column

 

[Kasrift]

I'm sure they could successfully hybridize, I've seen much further species cross. Those are definitely shrimp larvae, if they were mysids they would be on the ground and in the rockwork.

I think it would be more likely one of these was added recently and was carrying eggs. I had the weirdest thing with my Boxer shrimp where four months after purchase it was suddenly carrying an egg clutch.

 

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[q8cyu]

I think it would be more likely one of these was added recently and was carrying eggs. I had the weirdest thing with my Boxer shrimp where four months after purchase it was suddenly carrying an egg clutch.

I got my blood shrimp (Lysmata debelius) April 10, 2023
And my skunk cleaner shrimp (Lysmata amboinesis)
July 24, 2022

I have seen them once before (the pictures are from then) and it was after I added the blood shrimp.

 

[Kasrift]

I think they are baby cleaner shrimp. Like I said, my shrimp did this like clockwork
I don't know the full biology, but they can store what is needed to fertilize eggs, so maybe they had a clutch right when you bought it and had more they could fertilize for another release. Mine did this every two and a half weeks.

 

[q8cyu]

I think they are baby cleaner shrimp. Like I said, my shrimp did this like clockwork
I don't know the full biology, but they can store what is needed to fertilize eggs, so maybe they had a clutch right when you bought it and had more they could fertilize for another release. Mine did this every two and a half weeks.

If it is cleaner shrimp babies what do I need to do to keep them alive what would I need to feed them. You have given them phyto feast last night what else would they need

I currently have about 20 shrimps in a small jar with a macro algae, sand, and a bit of saltwater.