may sound crazy, but..

[motortrendz]

ive notice in my cheato tank something ive never seen before.. i cant get a pic bc they are too small...

they look like tiny jellyfish, white with 8points, swim like jelly fish, and virtually see thru.. also they are abt the size of copepods..

never saw them in there before tonight and there seemes to be abt 1000 of them easy..

what are they? what caused it? and how the heck do i get rid of them w/o destorying my pod cultivation??

 

[Killerdrgn]

hopefully it's not box jellies.

http://goaustralia.about.com/cs/practicalinfo/a/irukandji.htm

 

[motortrendz]

im sure its not them.. id probably be dead, by now...

 

[mcnuggget]

1st get a id on what it is. a pic would be nice for IDing.

 

[motortrendz]

uh, mcknugget... i dont have an ID.. thats y i am asking!.. and like i said i cant get a pic of them they are too small..they are smaller than copepods...

i remember a post abt them.. but couldnt find it! it was way back

 

[SevTT]

It could be a number of things, including coral or urchin spawn or something. Many of the critters in our tanks go through freakish metamorphoses after they hatch. I'm guessing that this is what they are; you had a spawning event in the tank and now there're a bunch of young ... whatevers ... floating around.

http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/larvae.html has some interesting pics.

AFAIK there aren't any kind of actual jellyfish which can complete a lifecycle in a normal reef tank, so I'd lay my money on free-swimming larvae of something.

 

[prattreef]

Free swimming stage of hydroids???


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[Imbarrie]

Do you have any shrimp?


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[Chiefmcfuz]

These?
Hydrozoan (Staurocladia oahuensis)

 

[motortrendz]

chief, not like the pic you sent.. they almost look like Pluteus larva of the urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.. but i have no urchins, or shrimp in their.. its a 20g tank with 2 inches of sand.. small pieces of LR and cheato.. there is a few hermits, nassarious, tons of pods and micro stars...

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

:scratchch

Ok I am stumped. I wish you could get a pic, but I understand it is tough to do.

 

[jaa1456]

this guy?

 

[motortrendz]

Nope...lol man this sucks..they are so small I can't get the camera to focus on it..

 

[jaa1456]

here is a page you can try http://www.chucksaddiction.com/hitchodds.html There are jellyfish at the bottom

 

[Reeftanker3295]

I got something like this and then I started noticing flatworms... I'd watch for them.

 

[jaa1456]

something like what? The first pic I posted are flatworms, just not as common

 

[motortrendz]

def not flat worms.. i swear it looks like a jelly fish swims like a jelly fish.. it pumps in a forward/upward motion twards the crown.. then relaxes and kinda hovers back down slowly.. like 2 steps forward and one step back.. has a few short "legs" that hang below it.. and the "head" does the pumping for movement... im not at all worried abt it getting into my DT.. thisis a totally seperate tank i use just to grow chaeto/caulerpa.. i grow out my pods in here.. i use a high ammount of phyto plankton and turn the water a greenish tint... so i dont want any of that getting into my DT... but man what the heck are they.. and where did they come from.. ive never seen anything like it.. if anyones in the toms river area and wants to see it or has a better camera please let me know..

 

[motortrendz]

hey check this out...
http://www.reefs.org/forums/topic47029.html

http://jellieszone.com/cladonema.htm

 

[Killerdrgn]

Cool find!

 

[motortrendz]

still cant get a good answer from all the research if they are bad? i saw in one post that they MAY feed on pods, but not definite..any idea on how to get rid of them?i did read that they can multiply like crazy.. im assuming bc of the nutrient rich water with the pods and phyto, they happy as hell.. but do i want to get rid of them or let it be.. im more afraid that if i give anyone some cheato they will get it..