Little black egg sacks

[the4ous]

Hi all, "i have a quick q. i just noticed i have a lot of very small shrimp in my sw tank. they came out of this little black egg sack that looks like a ball about the size of a dime . just wondering if anyone knew what kind of shrimp they are. The only shrimp i have had in my tank were pepermint shrimp.

 

[Devilishturtles]

Weird. Any chance you can get pictures?

 

[Ziggy953]

If you are talking about the "ball" you posted a pic of in your other thread that is not an egg sack. It is bubble algae.

 

[Ziggy953]

Do the shrimp look like this?

 

[the4ous]

thanks, you guys have already helped me on a diffrent thread and i took care of the problem. i posted this before i found the right forum to post in. and again thanks everyone

 

[the4ous]

i think they will if they get bigger right now they are very small. its really hard to tell what they look like butt.... they r only on my filters no where else in the tank. they stay curled up all the time.

 

[Ziggy953]

Do they swim or walk around?

If they swim around then they are probably the pic I posted above, mysis shrimp. If they crawl around then they are either:
Amphipods

or Isopods

Do either of these look more like what you are seeing in your tank?​

 

[conniey]

I just found a couple amphipods in my filter. Are they good or bad? I never noticed them before.

 

[Kurt_Nelson]

They're good things.

 

[the4ous]

they are the Amphipods they look just like the pic you posted thanks so much zyggy953