Cherry shrimp

[Cdb7692]

Just kinda curious but I have like 6 red cherry shrimp one of which had eggs the eggs are gone but now my tank is full of these little white dots that seem to be crawling over everthing in the tank could this be the babies that hatched from the eggs?

[Lenin]

Look at them closely, they should look like mini-versions of the adults, otherwise they're something else.

[TURQ64]

We just had a hatch of Crystal Red's, and as mentioned, the young are tiny, miniscule versions of the adults....small things moving around could be water fleas or somesuch from plant life.

[AngryBird]

I can guarantee that what you are seeing are not baby shrimps.

[Cdb7692]

well thanks for the info problem solved turns out that what ever the problem was the rams took care of it as the rams and the adult shrimp are the olny things in the tank

[ericatdallas]

I know it's old, but I found this in my tank when I ordered some plants for my shrimp. I did some research and really inspected them, I think they're copepods. In my case, I believe they were cyclops.

Pretty harmless I think... I don't see them on my other tanks, but they all have plecos in them so maybe they eat them too.

I've seen my shrimp bump into them all the time and not do anything with them. I think the shrimplets are much bigger though.

[Supatank]

harmless, i have a couple hundred in my 5 gallon.