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fishheadfred Fish Addict Posts: 708 Kudos: 653 Votes: 12 Registered: 30-Jul-2003	I also have found a cloud of "mosquitos" about the size of a baseball in my sump.Too tiny to photograph but they look like a shrimp type thing.small bodys with thin tails that are swimming in a tight formation.Mabey 50 of them or so. Any Ideas????
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40
DarkRealm Overlord Moderator metal-R-us Posts: 5962 Kudos: 2166 Registered: 23-Sep-2002	mysis shrimp....free food for your tank [hr width='40%']I’m here without you baby, but you're still on my lonely mind I think about you baby, and I dream about you all the time I’m here without you baby, but you're still with me in my dreams…
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40
fishheadfred Fish Addict Posts: 708 Kudos: 653 Votes: 12 Registered: 30-Jul-2003	Free Food! O.K. now whee did they come from? It's been almost a year since I added any live rock.I do feed frozen brine shrimp but I doubt that any eggs could have suvived.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40
DarkRealm Overlord Moderator metal-R-us Posts: 5962 Kudos: 2166 Registered: 23-Sep-2002	They have been in your tank the whole time.......you just havent noticed them. They came in on your live rock, your corals that you have bought, etc.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40
fishheadfred Fish Addict Posts: 708 Kudos: 653 Votes: 12 Registered: 30-Jul-2003	Sneaky little Buggers I also have a blue sponge that has popped up in the sump.I have more going on in the sump than the tank
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40
pmdaggett Enthusiast Posts: 191 Kudos: 169 Votes: 1 Registered: 25-Jul-2004	Those are good things. I've noticed that my reef tank after 6 months has things crawling all over it. From what I hear, if you add a sump or a fuge to your system it will really show after a while. The things you really need to look out for is hitchhiker crabs, they can be deadly to your corals.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40
fishheadfred Fish Addict Posts: 708 Kudos: 653 Votes: 12 Registered: 30-Jul-2003	Yeah I have a White shelled crab.Scarlet red body that I moved to the sump.Couldn't get rid of him he is way to cool.He was anililating my coraline algea.I had three turn up but this is the only one to last.Haven't been able to get an ID on it .I will see if I still have a pic of him.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:40


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