Pistol shrimp babies?

[Maggie321]

My pistol has been hiding for about a week...I am hoping it's molting and not dead. Tonight I see hundreds maybe thousands of what looks like tiny shrimp. I am only going off of comparison to the freshwater shrimp (rcs) babies I have. Could my pistol have molted and released babies? I have only had the pistol a bit less than 2 months. I don't even know if pistol shrimp breed in captivity... any one got any ideas?

 

[TheLadyCrash]

Assuming you only have the 1, it's unlikely. If I recall correctly the eggs hatch around 2 weeks after fertilization.

 

[Maggie321]

Hermits don't breed in captivity, do they?

 

[kireek]

Do you have a photograph? Most likely you are looking at mysis shrimp.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/live-mysis-shrimp-in-a-display-tank.237303/#post-2774203

 

[Maggie321]

Do you have a photograph? Most likely you are looking at mysis shrimp.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/live-mysis-shrimp-in-a-display-tank.237303/#post-2774203

I feed frozen mysis. But these are so tiny and some are red, yellow, pinkish, and white. I didn't think mysis would be colored like that. I have a healthy population of amphipods, but don't know what those look like as larvae. Been looking all day and it sounds like it's a long shot that they are pistols. More likely, they sound like dinner for my other tank critters.