'Nother ID Please...

[tizzo]

You'd think I'd know by now what all I have in my tank , but it seems that every time I get the batteries on my flashlight recharged, I find something new. Whatever this thig is, it's very tiny and on the glass, so I assume it's an algae eater. I have lots of them in the tank. I thought it was a limpet when I saw the first one, so I didn't think much of it, then tonight I notice a ton of 'em so I am back to being clueless. Everybody loves the ID threads!!!

 

[tizzo]

 

[skirrby]

some kinda limpit?

 

[attml]

Yep, they look like Limpets to me also.

 

[montidanae]

sandsifting(or something liek that) isopod.

 

[tizzo]

Well lemme point out that what you see is the underside of the critter. The colors make it look like its shell would be shaped like a limpet, but the part you see is flat. Also, it "crawls" like a pod. It doesn't slide like a limpet or snail, and when the PH hits them, they fly right off...
Monti, I did a search on sand sifting isopod and didn't have any luck, can you remember where you learned about them??

 

[montidanae]

harmless isopod, not like the cirro, i cant rember the whole name of it, lol, but something to do with sand, like sand sifting/shfting, i heard about them a long time ago from bang, when i was still magic-carp

 

[montidanae]

sandskater isopod, there it is! i have a few in my fuge that have made it to the main tank, breeding kinda fast, but i like them, differnt then your normal cope and amphi, and way better then a cirro iso, lol, also eat some of the deterius from the sand.

 

[tizzo]

Thanks!! I found the link.
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/47682/need-an-id-on-a-pod
I will research more on them tomorow, see if I can sell them...j/k lol

 

[dragonboy]

I have those too but they are much smaller than those.

 

[tizzo]

Originally posted by dragonboy
I have those too but they are much smaller than those.
Actually, I don't think you realize how small they are. In the pic, the camera is right on top of them, I'd say they are about half the size of a grain of rice. Like said before, I never even noticed them til last night.
I put seriolinidae in my google search and got a lot more info on them... Turns out they are rare in the aquarium. I think I'm gonna start a retail. LOL

 

[bang guy]

Everybody I've swapped sand with now has Sandskaters...

 

[tizzo]

Bang, How my gonna initiate the demand if you keep providing the supply??
OK, OK, I got it!!! Mine are the southern skaters!! Yeah, better than northern cause those are free!! Southern, what would you say? Bout $10 apiece??
LOL

 

[bang guy]

Put some in a black lid or bowl & try to get a good closeup. The look like miniature Trilobites!!

 

[tizzo]

I don't see them til night time so I will try then. Can I turkey baster them up?

 

[tizzo]

I did get a pic of something a while back, I just thought it too was a limpet...

 

[tizzo]

This was the back of one...right??

 

[tizzo]

Originally posted by Bang Guy
Put some in a black lid or bowl & try to get a good closeup. The look like miniature Trilobites!!
Are you saying they look like, or they could be??? Best pic I could get...

 

[tizzo]

 

[bang guy]

They're not Trilobites, they're Isopods.
They sure resemble itsy bitsy Trilobites though
Great pictures!!