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jeep9783
05-23-2009, 4:23 AM
The only thing that I have a pair of are cardinals (which i know it aint them ) and peppermint shrimp...within an hour of me looking at my tank i turn and look and there are I swear 300 really little shrimp like creatures in the water every where...they resamble little shrimp solid white really small...not mysis but i think baby peppermint...Is that possible...they are to small to take a picture of

Smoothie
05-23-2009, 4:37 AM
That would be cool. I have seen plenty of small mysis resembling shrimp in a fuge before.
They're not some sort of pod are they?

Jeff.mcphail
05-23-2009, 9:07 AM
free food!

texhorns98
05-23-2009, 10:18 AM
Sounds like pods to me...

bobz
05-23-2009, 10:39 AM
When my cleaner shrimp spawned the larva were extremely small. They do not look at all like shrimp, more like little tiny bugs. I'm not sure about Peps but would imagine they are similar.

Jeff.mcphail
05-23-2009, 10:39 AM
I have had both cleaner shrimp and fire shrimp release their fry in my tank. looks just as you have described.

jeep9783
05-23-2009, 11:43 AM
Ok that is what i was fig....so it would be relativly easy to raise there fry if i could set the up in a diff tank

jeep9783
05-23-2009, 11:45 AM
and its not a pod as it went from clean water to completly packed water within an hour

texhorns98
05-23-2009, 11:47 AM
and its not a pod as it went from clean water to completly packed water within an hour


I've seen that happen with pods too. I'm just sayin'...

bobz
05-23-2009, 1:37 PM
If it is the Peppermint shrimps, they are not impossible to raise but are definetly not easy! Good luck!

jeep9783
05-23-2009, 9:14 PM
Na my tank is full of wrasses and a pair of bangji cardinals...they are all gone unless some will make it in the sump