Stupid brine shrimp question

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I feed my fish frozen brine shrimp every once in a while (those cubes).
I just did a water change in one of the ten gallons and I find loads of living shrimp kind of things (they look like the sea monkeys). Could it be that the frozen brine shrimp as strong enough to survive the freezing???
And I am going to assume the fish will take care of them, right?

L.
 
Also brine-shrimp are SW creatures. Will die in FW.
 
scuds are large amphipods..but it does sound like you may have pods..which is a good thing .I'm surprised the fish haven't eaten them. causre they last like 10 seconds in my tanks
 
Hmmm, where did they come from though? I haven't added any new plants, didn't do anything to the tank, didn't add any other fish. Nothing.
They show up a week after feeding the frozen brine shrimp. A LOT of them. No free swimming, in the gravel...
Ah well, doesn't matter, maybe the next water change they will be gone. Happy to hear they won't harm the tank, whatever they are or wherever they came from...

L.
 
Do they look like little trees stuck coming out of the gravel? That would be hydra.
 
I used to get pods from excessive feeding. If I filled up a container with water and dropped in a pellet, pods would appear in a few days.
 
No, not hydra. They are free swimming (I see them in the bucket when I do a gravel vac; they swim fast!) and they look like sea monkeys.
Still had them this week, but already a lot less.

I don't think I overfeed (fish get food once every two days...)

L.
 
Fairy shrimp look like brine shrimp and are freshwater, though I've never heard of them hitchhiking into aquariums.
 
They could be unhatched brine shrimp eggs that were in your frozen food. Eggs are very resilient and can hatch in fresh water, despite what other members might say. I hatched a few batches in tap water without an airstone over the summer for my baby horseshoe crabs. I've got 2 batches going now in brackish water without an air stone.
 
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