Shrimp larvae, interesting! The only shrimp in the tank is my pistol... unless there's a tiny hitchiker somewhere, perhaps the 1/4" creature I thought might be an arthropod, that I figured was long gone since I haven't seen it lately... I did find it strange that they're free-swimming and attracted to light (they'd come over whenever I was using the flashlight).
I'm now seeing what are certainly pods (little roundish specs moving about on the glass), and the wrasse is feasting away. I hope there are enough inside the rocks and in my tiny refugium to prevent her from single-handedly wiping out the population, she's hunting these little critters ruthlessly! I can see why it's hard to maintain a pod population high enough to sustain a Mandarin dragonette, they're not much of a meal. I lost count of how many my girl put away in the space of about 10 minutes, you'd need zillions if they were the fish's only food!
I'm now seeing what are certainly pods (little roundish specs moving about on the glass), and the wrasse is feasting away. I hope there are enough inside the rocks and in my tiny refugium to prevent her from single-handedly wiping out the population, she's hunting these little critters ruthlessly! I can see why it's hard to maintain a pod population high enough to sustain a Mandarin dragonette, they're not much of a meal. I lost count of how many my girl put away in the space of about 10 minutes, you'd need zillions if they were the fish's only food!
