anyone up? SPAWN in my tank

[ninjamini]

Just went over to take a look at the tank for hitchikers and low and behold there seem to be I guess 100 baby shrimp swirling around the tank. Pepper I did not know you had it in you you old girl. They look a lot like my sea monkies. Aww gosh there so cute. :jumping:
Well now what do I do with them? Fish them out and put them into another tank? Let them grow? Or just leave them there to get eaten and sucked into the filter?
I do not have another tank set up...but I could run out in the am and get one quick. Drop in an airstone and see what happens. Any suggestions?

 

[shoreliner11]

Do you know who they're from? Shrimp/fish etc. Anyway, the odds of you saving them are pretty slim. You would need a batch of rotifiers or whatever it is that the yound would be eating. This usually takes time. If it happened once, it'll happen again. Kinda cool huh.

 

[ninjamini]

really cool. Looks like I could have saved $7 on the sea monkies. Yes I have them too. Blue plastic and everything.

 

[lopeyc]

If they are really shrimp spawn, there is nothing you can do -- there simply isn't any way, I don't think, that crustaceans with all their weird larval stages can come to maturity in a reef tank. They'll be eaten by morning, probably.
My cleaner shrimp lay eggs, they hatch every few nights and then they eat them themselves.
I suppose I could put some in my refugium, but I don't think that would make a diff.
Just my two cents, tho. Somebody else might be more optimistic!

 

[ninjamini]

As you thought they are all gone. Eaten, filtered or hiding...I dunno. Just think if I had not been up till 2 am I would never had known. Its so cool

 

[clarkiiboi]

Could be possible that it was pods. Best time see them around is at night. Just a thought.