some little free swimming things in my tank

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jstdv8

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So the lights have been out on my tank for a while and I just put the red light in there and in the fron right corner there was a whole swarm of little things that looked like tadpoles only really really small. thier tails didnt seem to sway at all just stayed straight out. they swarmed around in a group everywhere they went. probably between 50 and 200. hard to say.
When I put the light on them the cleaner shrimp came over real fast and I think was feasting on them.
I don't have any pairs of fish and I only have 1 each of shrimp. I don't know what to even guess they might be.
very very small the body part seemed to be whitish clear and the tail was more clearish.
 
J

jstdv8

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I don't suppose they have any chance of survival if that's what they are?
 
hunt

hunt

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doubt it. Although, a few weeks ago i had 4 hermit crabs and i found a small dead one missing it shell, i took it out and counted the ones left and i still had 4. So some how another got in there and im guessing it was born in there because of its smaller size.
I know you can siphon them out and raise them if you want, but i dont know much about that
 
hunt

hunt

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theres a lot of vids on youtube if you want to make sure thats what they look like
 
J

jstdv8

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hmm, hard to tell, but I;d say no, thier heads were almost perfectly round and then tapered back into a sinle long tail like a tadpole.
I don't see any in the tank now. I don't know if they swap to a part of the tank I can't see or are resting on the sand/rock or the shrimp ate them. I don't think the shrimp could have gotten tham all by now. And I'm only assuming he was eating them, looked like thats what he was doing.
 
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jstdv8

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cranberry, wasn't it you who had that hitchikers guide site? can you post it or PM it to me, maybe I can look through there. of course maybe you don't have alot of stuff that isn't full grown on there.
 
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jstdv8

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The link I posted says that those things (which may be what I have) are tunicates, what the heck is a tunicate?
 
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jstdv8

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I wonder what feather duster babies look like. I have lots of those, that migth be a possibility. I have cerith snails, turbos, margaritas, herimt crabs, 1 emerald crab, 1 electric blue hermit, 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 B/W clown, 1 Yellow tang, 1 sixline and 1 mandarin, lots of feather dusters, 1 cocoworm, 3 different sizes of pods, several small and large bristleworms and quite a few hydroids. Those are the things that I know of at least :)
 
J

jstdv8

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I googles tunicate larve and that looks like what I have. Who would have thought a sponge would at one time look like a tadpole. Sheesh
 
cranberry

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Originally Posted by Jstdv8
http:///forum/post/3286764
cranberry, wasn't it you who had that hitchikers guide site? can you post it or PM it to me, maybe I can look through there. of course maybe you don't have alot of stuff that isn't full grown on there.
I don't have anything that looks like that on there :)
 
cranberry

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That what my picture was... shrimpies....
This is what they looked like close up, but you couldn't pic this out with such detail with the

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