What is it???
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teresaq
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Hard to see, does it look like this
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/301304/copepod-amphipod-whattheheckisthieapod
https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/301304/copepod-amphipod-whattheheckisthieapod
rykna
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Originally Posted by TeresaQ
Hard to see, does it look like this
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...light=amphipod
Nope, it's larger than that..
it has a striped back..yellow and black, same structure as a mantis shrimp..body size of a mysis shrimp, and a nasty little tail like the skeleton shrimp.
I tried to scoop the little critter out last night but it managed to escape into the sand bed.
Hard to see, does it look like this
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/show...light=amphipod
Nope, it's larger than that..
it has a striped back..yellow and black, same structure as a mantis shrimp..body size of a mysis shrimp, and a nasty little tail like the skeleton shrimp.
I tried to scoop the little critter out last night but it managed to escape into the sand bed.
rykna
Active Member
Originally Posted by Bronco300
his antennas stretch to freakin the other side of the tank
Yes, it the antennas were at least as long as it's body. It appeared to be sifting through the substrate for dinner. When it found something it stuffed it in it's mouth sand grains and all.
his antennas stretch to freakin the other side of the tank
Yes, it the antennas were at least as long as it's body. It appeared to be sifting through the substrate for dinner. When it found something it stuffed it in it's mouth sand grains and all.
rykna
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Originally Posted by Bronco300
still hard for me....first thing comes to mind is a small mantis maybe??
we've gotten mantis hitchikers before as small as an 1-2"...can you get him out of his cave?
I almost had it, but it disappeared into the substrate. Are there any mantis that have black and yellow stripes? The critter was maybe a half inch long.
still hard for me....first thing comes to mind is a small mantis maybe??
we've gotten mantis hitchikers before as small as an 1-2"...can you get him out of his cave?
I almost had it, but it disappeared into the substrate. Are there any mantis that have black and yellow stripes? The critter was maybe a half inch long.
rykna
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Originally Posted by Bronco300
what does his face look like, does he have two big boxers? you know how mantis have the two big boxers in front right?
No...they were more like ghost shrimp pinchers, and the tail was all wrong, it was much more like that of a scorpion....
I think I might have found a possibility,
the Tiger Prawn.
what does his face look like, does he have two big boxers? you know how mantis have the two big boxers in front right?
No...they were more like ghost shrimp pinchers, and the tail was all wrong, it was much more like that of a scorpion....
I think I might have found a possibility,
the Tiger Prawn.
zeke92
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i know what that is!
thats a mole crab thingy.
there a crab type thing that burrow into the sand backwards i believe, like moles sorta. they can get a few inches big i think. i always thought they were sorta creepy, can't imagine actually finding one.
atleast it looks like it.
here is pics of older ones.
http://images.google.com/images?q=mo...=1&sa=N&tab=wi
that could EASILY be a young one still developing it's shell. and stuff. but that looks and sounds to me what it is.
thats a mole crab thingy.
there a crab type thing that burrow into the sand backwards i believe, like moles sorta. they can get a few inches big i think. i always thought they were sorta creepy, can't imagine actually finding one.
atleast it looks like it.
here is pics of older ones.
http://images.google.com/images?q=mo...=1&sa=N&tab=wi
that could EASILY be a young one still developing it's shell. and stuff. but that looks and sounds to me what it is.
yosemite sam
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Yup, amphipod. You probably have many of them. Here's some reading: https://forums.saltwaterfish.com/t/172998/amphipods-copopods-isopods
rykna
Active Member
Thanks all
I feel tons better now...when I first saw it, late at night after the lights went out...my first thought was..MANTIS SHRIMP
I am leaning towards the gammarid amphipod, however, this little critter has the tail of the sand flea that Zeke posted.
I'm just glad it's not a mantis
I am leaning towards the gammarid amphipod, however, this little critter has the tail of the sand flea that Zeke posted.
I'm just glad it's not a mantis
nybutterfly03
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I have them in my tanks too. Ive seen some good sized ones