Do my corals have the couties?

[Craig]

It's dark in the room with my tank and I walked in and quickly shined a flashlight into my tank. I was a bit suprised when I saw thousands of little things swimming in a swarm around a few frags and clams that I have at the bottom. I was unable to get a pic because they are so small, but they basically looked like a grain of salt with a little tail. Do I have marine couties in my tank? Does this sound like an isse anyone else has had? Is it time to start medicating my tank? Any thoughts?

:Thinking:

 

[Deanos]

Without pics, ID will be difficult. Check some of the other threads in this forum to try and narrow your search.

 

[DEEPWATER]

Do you have shrimp in your tank ,(blood or cleaners ) they usally spawn at nite and have about 1000 babies ,,where they just around your corals or all over the tank

 

[Craig]

Here's my best attempt at a pic of the little guys. Notice the white spots in the pic.

I've got 3 different types of shrimp in my tank. Peppermint, banded, and some other shrimp whose name i cant remember but it cost like $20

I've recently added a few new frags so I'm a bit weary as to whether they're newborns or hitchhikers.

 

[Craig]

another pic

 

[Tonyscoots84]

they look like pods of some sort or maybe babies of something from here i dunno without a closeup of the dots we are talking about...

 

[Craig]

I'm maxing out the range of my camera with 4x zoom at 5megapixels.
I can barely see them with my eyes and they're not really showing up in the camera. Got any camera tricks?

I tried scooping some into a glass and shooting from the glass but it didint help.

I'm a little less paranoid cause I saw my hermit crabs have begun eating the little buggers.

 

[nanoreefer22]

Reminds me of astrea eggs being deposited into the water column, just like at jhales party that night.

 

[Josh]

Do they have a hard shell? They sound like pods.

Do you have a manual focus or macro lens feature on your camera?