baby shrimp?

[nvmycj]

Is there anyway that I could get baby shrimp in my tank without having shrimp? This morning I found several 1/4 inch shrimp looking things swimming around my frogspawn.
Any takers?

 

[laddy]

Yikes.....is this a "which came first the chicken or the egg" question?
Not likely, but you might want to snap a pic.

 

[bigarn]

Are you sure they're not pods?

 

[bang guy]

Do a search on "Mysid Shrimp".

 

[tuningvis]

sea monkeys

 

[nvmycj]

BangGuy: I did a search on mysid shrimp and got about 17 pages of non related material. Mostly about mysid shrimp being feed to different corals. No pics, however. But I understand that mysid shrimp are not harmful, true?
Anyone got a pic of a mysid shrimp. They're too far for my camera to get a good shot of.
I saw a pic of an amphipod. It looked similar to that, but more shrimp-like and whiter. Are amphipod harmful?
thanks guys.

 

[bang guy]

Mysid (Opossum Shrimp) are good fish food, as are most Amphipods. There are harmful Amphipods but they are usually only found attached to their victims and not free swimming.
Here's a pic of one of my Mysid Shrimp. The green belly is from eating phytoplankton so tummy color can vary. It was about 1/5" - 1/4".
If you shine a light on them at night the eyes light up bright red.

 

[nvmycj]

Awesome pic!
Mine looks something like that. I'll see if their eyes light up red with a light. How did you get such a close up pic?
Totally off of the subject.....
.....but what type of camera's are you guys/gals using?

 

[bang guy]

I'm using a Kodak DC290.

 

[wocka]

i come i cant see the pic?

 

[scubataibi]

the administrator is making some changes, i cant see pics either. damn seamonkeys

 

[90reefkepr]

you may be able to get a picture off of google. click images.

 

[90reefkepr]

http://www.marinelife-explorer.com/s...ysidshrimp.jpg
hope this works