Baby cleaner shrimp???? What is this?

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  1. mdaigle21

    mdaigle21 Astrea Snail

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    I have lil white spots all over my display tank. I recently purchased 2 cleaner shrimp but I'm not sure if they had babies. Now I have 7 lil critters livin in my overflow box... They come out to eat when leftover food makes its way into the overflow but they just hid in between the glass and the silicone. Theyve been there for a few weeks now and seem to be gettin bigger. Right now their about an 8th of an inch long... No idea what they are tho.
     
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  3. Renee@LionfishLair

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    Mysis shrimp maybe?
     
  5. mdaigle21

    mdaigle21 Astrea Snail

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    Not baby peppermint shrimp, it's the cleaner shrimp with the 2 red lines and the 4 white spots on their tales. I have 2 of those and one coral banded but the coral bandeds been in there for over 6 months
    I wish my phone would let me post the pics I took so u could see them. They're way to big to be pods
     
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    Meant tp say cleaner shrimp, but typed Pepp by mistake. Neither will survive in your tank. There are a whole mess of pods way smaller than cleaner shrimp larvae.

    This is what shrimp larvae look in your tank (pepps and cleaners look the same)... they'll be in the water column towards the top. They don't crawl around and eat. They would if they could survive in our tanks to that age of maturity, but they don't.

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  7. mdaigle21

    mdaigle21 Astrea Snail

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    Nope, definately don't look like that lol. Guys at the store said it looks like some huge pods. They're pretty big but he said that's what they are so its good news :)
    Ty for ur help!