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05-10-2008, 10:34 AM
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| | Flamingo Tongue
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: North Dakota Age: 31
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 |  Something strange yet cool happened last night
Now I have no pictures of this because it would've been impossible but we got home late and I turned on the moon lights to look around which I haven't done in awhile. I was looking around and thinking why is all this gunk floating around inside. Like 1,000's of little pieces of floaties. Well upon a closer look they were ALL ALIVE. They looked like minature baby mosquito larva so some kind of invert but did something spawn?
I'll look again tonight but it was cool to see 1,000's of these small creatures trying to move their little legs as the current swished them around. I'll have to look again tonight to see if it happens again.
I have 1 cleaner shrimp, 1 coral banded shrimp and 6 peppermints but I thought peppermints layed eggs (which I guess is possible).
If anyone has any idea it'd be fun to know 
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90 gallon with 26 gallon sump/refugium, 2 x 250 MH lighting, 100lbs live rock, 1 - yellow tang,1 damsel, 1 - cleaner shrimp, 1 - coral banded shrimp, 3 - emerald crabs, 2 - porcelin crabs, 6 - peppermint shrimp, 1 - green ricordia, 1 - toadstool, 1 - brittle starfish, 1 - sand sifting star, 100's baby feather dusters,Ass mushrooms, frogspawn, xenia, 1 clam,
6 - Leather coral, Green star polyps,Lime green/orange button polyps,1 huge carpet anenome,various snails/hermit crabs | 
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05-10-2008, 10:36 AM
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| | Great Blue Whale
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ohio Age: 32
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Sounds cool. I remember seeing my baby clowns hatch for the first time.. Oh the memories... LOL!!!!
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5.5 gal, 72w of pcs, 2 leds, rio nano skimmer, 40 gal hob filter, 50w visi-therm heater, 5pds lr, 1 inch live sand bed, 1 true perc ,1 porcelain crab, tuxedo urchin, 1 pep shrimp, 1 lge turbo , 3 cerith, 1 astrea, 1 nassaruis snails, rd/blue blastos, neon grn bali slimer acro, ROB, 1 grn 1 purple tipped frogspawns, feather duster, purple, and orange rics, monti's, duncans, grn polyps, cndycane corals, shrooms, zoa's, blue clove polyps, purple death pallys and grn star plyps. | |
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05-10-2008, 11:27 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: new york Age: 32
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my blood shrimp and cleaner dropped off their skin i don't know why? i don't think different specie can lay the eggs are they? i guess these babies belongs to peppermint. | |
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05-10-2008, 12:59 PM
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| | Blue Ringed Angel
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: St. Louis
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Originally Posted by nybatu  my blood shrimp and cleaner dropped off their skin i don't know why? i don't think different specie can lay the eggs are they? i guess these babies belongs to peppermint. | That's what happens when they molt. They simply outgrow their exoskeleton. _________ Curt  | |
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05-13-2008, 10:23 PM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: May 2008
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its probably not baby shrimp, it wouldnt be in the thousands, and chances are they would get eaten, probably some kind of pod... probably not harmful, good food for lots | |
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05-13-2008, 10:33 PM
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| | Teardrop Maxima Clam
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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i see a bunch of little pods in my tank, but for you to be able to see their legs and all, makes me curious, that it might be something else. | 
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