Small clear skeleton floating around...

[JKT69]

I've been meaning to ask...on a couple of ocassions I have noticed a very small, say the width of a thumb nail size, clear looking thing that looks like a shrimp or something similar to that. I saw one yesterday being tossed around the surface of the tank until the skimmer got it, and a couple of weeks back I noticed one kind of wedged up against the back of a rock. Any idea on what that is?

 

[DontXtripNfall]

pod skeleton, do you have a wrasse?

 

[JKT69]

Negative. Only two damsels at this point.

 

[acemow]

do you have any small shrimp that may be molting?

 

[brucewrs]

most likely a pod skeleton

 

[DontXtripNfall]

Negative. Only two damsels at this point.

I wouldn't doubt it with damsels either, but wrasses are more likely candidates to leave a pod skeleton floating around

 

[BigAl07]

I see the same thing now and again in my 12g NanoCube and only a Tomato Clown in there.

 

[Varga]

Mysis shrimp molt

 

[Sapphire]

sounds like some kind of pod skeleton/molt -seems like some of them will be eaten but others apparently aren't appealing and keep getting tried and spat out by my clowns

 

[Reefmack]

Do you have any shrimp in the tank - peppermints or cleaner shrimp? If you do, and based on "thumbnail" size my guess is a piece of the molt of one of those. The molts of my shrimp are pretty clear and they do at times float around the tank, whole or in pieces.

 

[mbdave]

Molt of some crustation.