Something Spawned! What was it?

[Zakary2003]

I had something spawn in my tank tonight! It looks like a crustacean. I have peppermint shrimp, a single female candy pistol shrimp that's brand new in my tank, hermits, and a female emerald crab. Which do you think it is? The shrimps haven't looked berried to me, so I personally think hermit crabs.

My chromis were having a feast, lol. Even with the lights totally off and the lunar channel set to zero for the full moon.

Sorry if the pictures aren't great. They're pretty small. Pictures are taken with my galaxy s22 ultra, and some of them have a 10x macro lens attachment added on. The last two are through my microscope.

 

[Maritimer]

Seems like a shrimp of some sort ... do you have shrimp in your tank?

~B.

 

[Pistondog]

I had something spawn in my tank tonight! It looks like a crustacean. I have peppermint shrimp, a single female candy pistol shrimp that's brand new in my tank, hermits, and a female emerald crab. Which do you think it is? The shrimps haven't looked berried to me, so I personally think hermit crabs.

My chromis were having a feast, lol. Even with the lights totally off and the lunar channel set to zero for the full moon.

Sorry if the pictures aren't great. They're pretty small. Pictures are taken with my galaxy s22 ultra, and some of them have a 10x macro lens attachment added on. The last two are through my microscope.

Exciting, you must be doing it right!

 

[dthom]

I am leaning towards Mysis shrimp

 

[Zakary2003]

I am leaning towards Mysis shrimp

I don't have any adult mysis shrimp in my tank that I know of so I don't see how that's possible.

 

[Zakary2003]

There are none left this morning that I can see unfortunately, but my chromis are all super fat and happy! So are my LPS coral. This is the fluffiest I've seen my acan/micromussa during the day.

 

[ElementReefer]

I’m going with hermit crab larvae.

Hermit crab LARVA!!!!

I just found hermit crab larva in my tank! Is there anyway to keep them alive?

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[Tahoe61]

I don't have any adult mysis shrimp in my tank that I know of so I don't see how that's possible.

They can actually be in the food you feed. The eggs will hatch.

 

[formallydehyde]

Peps breed readily in captivity, but when they breed look obviously pregnant typically for weeks — they hold on to their larva for a while, and they grow to the point where they look like they have a bunch of cotton stuffed under and between their pleopods (the swimmy fin legs) in the week(s) preceeeing larval release. Their larva also look spindley when suspended in the water and have swimming paddles attached to some of their legs. If you haven't seen any of that then you're right that they're not peppermint shrimp.

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Maybe @ ISpeakForTheSeas can say