baby jelly?

[BAD FISH]

I was just messing with stuff in my fuge and a little jellyfish pop up outta no where I love reef tanks :cyclops:

 

[Geraud]

It is probably an hydroid in the medusa stage.

Does it look like that when it sticks to the glass http://www.wetwebmedia.com/Cnidarians/Hydrozoans/Hydropolyps/9-point-1.jpg?

I love when they are "belling"

 

[BAD FISH]

no doesn't look like that it literally looks like a jellyfish. It swells up and pushes out the water while it swims and is super tiny the size of a large copepod

 

[Geraud]

Yep that's the medusa stage. It bells, but when it attaches it looks like on the picture. After that it becomes a polyp with very long tentacles.

http://www.asnailsodyssey.com/IMAGES/HYDROID/ObeliaLifeCycle.gif

They are really interesting animals

Here you can see a video of a medusa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5TUY1Nngmo

 

[Rob&Gab]

I was just messing with stuff in my fuge and a little jellyfish pop up outta no where I love reef tanks :cyclops:

how do you think it got there?? any corlor of it?

 

[BAD FISH]

I have no idea so many little critters in the fuge its mostly clear with purple vein looking things

 

[KathyC]

Hydroids are not something you want in your tank as they are quite invasive.
Do they look like any of these? (not all of these pics are of hydroids, but most are) :

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...i=2&ved=0CCYQsAQwAA&biw=1280&bih=619&tbm=isch