Tad Pole looking things???

[Home_Depot]

I was looking in my fuge today and noticed little tab pole looking things. They don't look like the pods I have seen in my tank. does anyone have a clue what I am talking about???LOL any sites I can go to that would have differant things like that?

[NAL]

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[hamdogg08]

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[coralreefer]

Probably copepods or mysis shrimp. I forget which ones look like that. Maybe try wetwebmedia.com? They are great for IDing.

[capman]

The ID really depends a lot on size, how they are swimming, etc.

Tunicates have larvae that look a lot like tadpoles, but you probably won't be seeing them with your naked eye, and the probability of you having tunicates in your system that are healthy and reproducing (or even alive) seems remote unless you have some brand new fresh live rock. (If you DO have a colony of tunicates that are doing well....that would be way cool...I'd love to have healthy tunicates in my tanks!).

Mysid shrimp don't really look like tadpoles (depends on what you think tadpoles look like I suppose), and they don't swim like tadpoles (they don't wiggle their tails back and forth). But if you have tiny critters swarming in your refugium that sort of look like a swarm of tiny fish, and that are easily visible to the naked eye, I suspect they might be mysid shrimp.

Copepods are generally smaller, and many species swim in a jerky start and stop fashion and often have sort of a tear-drop shaped body. My guess is that you would not view these as looking like tadpoles though, as they would be so small as to appear mostly just as moving specks.

The only other thing that comes to mind is possibly clownfish larvae, but if these "tadpole" things are in your refugium pretty much continuously, then this is probably not the answer. I could imagine having a swarm of clownfish larvae right after a hatch, but I'd expect them to be gone (starved, sucked through pumps, etc) fairly soon afterward.

My best guess is that you have mysid shrimp (but again, they don't really swim or look like tadpoles).

[REEFSTOCK]

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