mini jellies?

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Sherah

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title pretty much says it all. i have an "infestation" of minute jellies.
there to small to get a picture, but the really do look just like jellyfish. only there about the size of this --> 0
yah. seriously. the behave like jellies and everything!?
is this possible? or is there a more plausible explanation.
 
not, there not stationary, tanks almost a year old. no new anything in 3 months, last thing that was added was a fish. no new habitats since the start.
 
More likely a juvenile stage of something, but of what I have no idea. What corals/ other sessile inverts are in the tank?
 
2 maze brain
hammer
frog spawn
opern brain
plate
acan
ancan lord
fox coral
cabbage coral
plate again
star polyps
lots of mushrooms
and tons of polyps colony and frags
 
Yeah probably larval something, crabs, shrimp, and some snails all go through a floating stage when first born lasting a few days to a couple weeks. I've had berried shrimp release their young before usually don't last long though they get eaten, starve, caught up in filtration/skimmer.

Noticed any berried shrimp, crabs? When did they first appear? Does it look like the population has dropped since?
 
Almost certainly a coral. As far as id, good luck, unless you can get them to settlement, in which case it will be the coral growing EVERYWHERE!
 
coral spawn that looks exactly and behaves exactly like jellyfish? is that possible?
checked the crab and shrimp and nothing there.

i caught some of them 2 days ago and put them in a separate tank with a bubbler, no sand nothing, its a brine shrimp hatchery so its all black. there still alive and doing the jellyfish bloop thing. some look like they have grown!
 
I can't imagine where else a moving polyp would come from, given the stock you list. It is certainly not a crustacean! My knowledge of coral reproduction beyond fragging, budding, and planulation is admittedly a bit lacking, but my skills at deductive reasoning rarely fail me. I am unaware of any type of diapause or dormancy in Jellyfish, which could explain how a true Jelly showed up, but again my knowledge in this is admittedly lacking a bit. This would certainly warrant a bit of research.
 
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