Cali Kid Corals

What is going on here?

svreef

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I couldn’t sleep last night, so I went to check out the tank at night. To my surprise there was a cloud of tiny critters that looked like fry at first. Upon closer inspection, they have two eyes and a V shaped tail. They swim backward and look more like baby shrimp. I have 3 shrimp, but they’re different species.

Any thoughts?




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Not sure that what you’re seeing is what you think it is. Cleaner larvae takes like 4 months to settle out is much understanding. Much more likely mysid shrimp.
That’s what I thought at first but upon inspection they were coming from the belly of the cleaners. Same way that my freshwater shrimp spawned so it was a semi familiar sight.
 
I think I caught this right after they spawned because there was a cloud of them in the tank. Didn’t see any the next day.

Here’s another video:


 
I have seen these in my tank before. I think they were from cleaner shrimp or peppermint shrimp. Both carried eggs under their bellies. But as others have said, probably mysid.

any survivors still?
 
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