Cleaner shrimp ?
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promisetbg
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It is not good..I forget what it is..but it is fatal.Let me see if I can find a thread with the answer for you.
promisetbg
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This was posted by thomas712:
I'm familier with this problem. Been asking about it for years, everytime someone mentions the Black Spot problem with cleaner shrimp. Finally it was Bang Guy who id-it for me.
It is an Epicaridean isopod. This is a parasite that shows up as an irregularly formed black mass in the abdominal region of the shrimp. So far I'm guessing that about 95% of the shrimp that are found to have this parisite wind up dead.
You may find that when your shrimp molts that these black spots dissapear, but in many that I have spoken to they wind up comming back, the parisite does not go away.
I'm familier with this problem. Been asking about it for years, everytime someone mentions the Black Spot problem with cleaner shrimp. Finally it was Bang Guy who id-it for me.
It is an Epicaridean isopod. This is a parasite that shows up as an irregularly formed black mass in the abdominal region of the shrimp. So far I'm guessing that about 95% of the shrimp that are found to have this parisite wind up dead.
You may find that when your shrimp molts that these black spots dissapear, but in many that I have spoken to they wind up comming back, the parisite does not go away.