ID Please! amphipod?

[joemack]

I thought I saw a baby bristle worm but this is different.

Movie of it breathing or something

 

[hirock]

It looks like an Isopod.
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/iz/isopod/
http://www.vims.edu/~jeff/isopod.htm
http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/crust/isopbiol.html
I have never experienced one in my system >knocks on wood< but most fall into the class of parasites. Since there are so many species involved, IMHO, it would be best to eradicate any or all that are found.

 

[harlequin]

you got that backwards. Very few of them classify as parasites. We just tend to notice those more often for obvious reasons so they seem more common. Chances are its a harmless pod, I think it looks more amphipodish more than Isopodish though.

 

[joemack]

thats what I was thinking. I was really wanted to find a baby bristle worm but I got a suprise instead. Maybe next time

 

[joemack]

The only sure way to tell an isopod from other similar crustaceans is that they have only one pair of uropods and lack strong clawed first thoracic legs. The carapace is lacking which reveals the segmented body composed of a head, a pereon (thorax) of 7 somites (segments) and a pleon (abdomen) of 6 somites. The last abdominal segment, to which the uropods are attached, is fused with the telson (or tail segment) to form a pleotelson. Each of the seven segments of the pereon has a pair of legs
from the last site that was linked. Maybe it is an isopod! Im pretty sure its a good one.

 

[fishman830]

bang guy where are you?

 

[joemack]

I hear that!!! but Im convenced its an isopod 100%
Soon asfter I can get a pic of an amphropod (SP) and a bristle worm i want to make a new thread of all the small things I found and magnified. "common critters"
Thanks guys for everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[bang guy]

I'm in agreement that it's some type of Isopod.

 

[kc36330]

here is a good pic of an 'Amphipod"
i got a few million in the 100g fuge i have on my 180g reef. the shot was taken with a Nikon 995.
kc