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A few months back I peered into my tank a few hours after dark and was amazed at the “soup” of critters swimming around. I like to gaze after dark and can always find both pelagic and benthic copepods and amphipods, but this was crazy: thousands upon thousands of various critters:
These were by far the most interesting ones:
Any ideas on what these could be? Tank was up for 4-6 weeks at this point: stocked it with 100 bs TBS rock. Initially I thought I had one mantis shrimp: you can hear the click in the video. However, 6 months in, I’ve caught 6 mantis shrimp and my tank clicks more now than ever. Could these have been juvenile/early planktonic mantis shrimp?
These were by far the most interesting ones:
Any ideas on what these could be? Tank was up for 4-6 weeks at this point: stocked it with 100 bs TBS rock. Initially I thought I had one mantis shrimp: you can hear the click in the video. However, 6 months in, I’ve caught 6 mantis shrimp and my tank clicks more now than ever. Could these have been juvenile/early planktonic mantis shrimp?
