Staurocladia Crawling Hydromedusae?

oldschoolreefer26 · Thursday at 5:08 PM

Trying to figure out what these little guys are. Very difficult to get a good photo, but they’re at least twice the size of a copepod, round, sort of sun shaped with anywhere from 5-8 legs spread out symmetrically from the center. Best guess is staurocladia, any ideas?

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Tahoe61 · Thursday at 11:33 PM

New tank? Do they move?
I am only guessing perhaps Hydroid Jelly fish.
Or the smaller variety of Brittle Stars.

oldschoolreefer26 · Friday at 11:06 AM

Tahoe61 said:
New tank? Do they move?
I am only guessing perhaps Hydroid Jelly fish.
Or the smaller variety of Brittle Stars.

Yes about 2 months old, got some galaxy pods from algae barn about a week ago. The pod population has exploded and these guys with it.
I haven’t actually seen them move, but I’m assuming they do since they weren’t on the glass yesterday.