I just found white little things all over my tank tonight which weren’t there last night. I took some that were floating and put them under my microscope and found these. They have freaky little legs that pop out and move under the blob shell things and the shell things are hairy. Theyre ‘front’ (?) legs have little tiny pinschers. Are these okay?
Amphipods/copepods but with a “shell”?
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I just found white little things all over my tank tonight which weren’t there last night. I took some that were floating and put them under my microscope and found these. They have freaky little legs that pop out and move under the blob shell things and the shell things are hairy. Theyre ‘front’ (?) legs have little tiny pinschers. Are these okay?
luu78
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A few years ago I saw the same thing in my nano tank that had a flame scallop and I thought it was from the flame scallop spawning. They actually are visible to the naked eyes as tiny white dots and swim around in the water column and that was how I found them. They had eyes seemed like under the microscope. I always wondered what to become of them….
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Clam larvae? under microscope - several days post hatch (DPH)
I found these larvae a couple nights ago while checking on the white spot anemone shrimp egg clutch during light out. It seems to be clam larvae. Notice the eyes on the shells. Some appears to be a lot larger than others so I think the hatching took place a couple days prior. The only mollusk I...
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They are ostracods!! Thank you!
