Help ID small shrimps on elegance coral.

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Just got an elegance coral and saw some moving shrimps if anyone can ID while acclimating.
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[D'sreef]

Those I believe are copepods, which exact type I could not begin to tell you.

 

[kevgib67]

Without zooming in, amphipods?

 

[bshake]

Without zooming in, amphipods?

Hey they don’t look like pods but more like shrimp or lobsters they’re super duper tiny. Maybe a pistol or coral bandit? They have that body shape. I don’t think they’re mantis shrimp. I was in the LFS they were literally racing across the elegance coral. There’s like 5 of them lol I’m gonna try and grow them out to see

 

[Evil1]

amphipods

 

[bshake]

amphipods

They actually don’t look like that but more shripy lol I guess.

 

[Shirak]

Hey they don’t look like pods but more like shrimp or lobsters they’re super duper tiny. Maybe a pistol or coral bandit? They have that body shape. I don’t think they’re mantis shrimp. I was in the LFS they were literally racing across the elegance coral. There’s like 5 of them lol I’m gonna try and grow them out to see

amphipods shrimpy looking things a little hunched over sometimes.. move very fast

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Just got an elegance coral and saw some moving shrimps if anyone can ID while acclimating.

Hard to say for sure from the video, but between the more opaque carapace with the (admittedly barely visible) translucent/transparent tail and the big black eyes, I would think probably mysid shrimp or possibly some kind of decapod larvae (such as hermit crab larvae, for example).

I would definitely need some higher magnification pics to say for sure though.

 

[Tripod1404]

Mysid shrimp. Good hitchhiker.