Weird Breeding In my tank...

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  1. ScubaBrett22

    ScubaBrett22 Fire Shrimp

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    Okay a few nights ago i saw a Whole bunch of Little Baby fish flying in the current and i was wondering my Female Clown fish lost its mate and is single. I don't know what or who is mating here are some of my fish/ critters.

    Fish:

    1 Yellow Tang
    1 Clown Fish
    1 Sand shifter Gobey
    1 Six Line Wrass

    Critters:

    Snails, Crabs, Emerld Crab, Some unknown Rock Crab and some small bristle stars in the rocks.

    I added two pix of this "Unknown Rock Crab"
     

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  3. DanKistner

    DanKistner Coral Banded Shrimp

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    How long ago did she lose her mate?
     
  4. ScubaBrett22

    ScubaBrett22 Fire Shrimp

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    Give or take 3-5 Months ago...
     
  5. DanKistner

    DanKistner Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Ok that answers that question. Are you sure they are fish?
     
  6. ScubaBrett22

    ScubaBrett22 Fire Shrimp

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    i am pretty sure not 100% i took a few out and looked at them cause i was about to go to sleep and i was like wtf with my tank and i look and i was like cool and they were White 0.5 - 1.0 cm long and had.... small legs... <- wow stupid me i guess they weren't fish... but my Peppermint shrimp died about 2 months after mating and having babes hmmm..... :confused::confused:
     
  7. pkarakis

    pkarakis Plankton

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    That crab looks like a gorilla crab. Bab actors they are.
     
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  9. amcarrig

    amcarrig Super Moderator

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    Could be an amphipod or mysid shrimp?
     
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    veedubshafer Banned

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    Did these fish with legs resemble this one at all?
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  12. DanKistner

    DanKistner Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Ha ha, that was a good one!