Shrimp? Fry

[+o0zarkawater]

I've noticed these guys before when looking at my tank at night. Finally was able to get a decent-ish picture. They pop up for just a night or 2 at max, every couple weeks.

I do currently have a couple peppermint shrimp, but I've seen these guys long before I got the pepps. I've also encountered them in my 10gal where I only have one peppermint, and have never had a second.

Could they be from viable egg cysts on frozen mysis falling off and hatching in the tank?

Am I totally overlooking something else that they are?

I do have a pair of clowns, but I'm pretty sure these aren't fish fry. They definitely look like shrimp to me.

Click thumbs for the best pics I could get.

Thanks.

Thanks!

[+cyrus]

looks like mysis. RC had an abundace of them before they cleaned their tanks, buy anything from them? Like out of their invert tanks maybe?

[GKarshens]

Hard to say, but it looks like they have red on them which would rule out mysis in my experience. I think it is probably peppermints. The one you had could have been pregnant when you got it.

[teg]

I saw these in my tank before at night, while looking for clownfish frys. I got a bunch out and tried to raise them in separate container, feeding them with Instant Algae; they were pretty hardy creatures (no water change for few weeks). After 1-2 weeks what I saw were a few adult brine shrimp in the container; not sure if my container were contaminated with BS (sucked out from the main tank along with these shrimps) or not. I did put a few of these shrimp under the microscope, but couldn't conclude if they were mysis, peppermint, or cleaner. They do have red stripes running down their back; so I thought these might have been cleaner shrimp but after a several weeks of raising them they didn't morph to anything else. At that point i just dump the whole container into my clown fry's tank and give them a good meal.