Worlds biggest pod or a shrimp?

[elkomom]

Fish in treatment tank, only inverts where this was spotted. Lots of smaller crawlers,too. Any ids?

 

[reefforbrains]

just a pod

 

[reefreak29]

amphipod

 

[reefkprz]

Originally Posted by reefreak29
amphipod

 

[rbrockm1]

is that what thoses are. I have so many in my tank and my spotted marine must be eating them cause he has survived a year. i don't know how they got in there but i am glad. so thats what a amphipod looks like

 

[elkomom]

thanks, all.

 

[rykna]

Originally Posted by rbrockm1
is that what thoses are. I have so many in my tank and my spotted marine must be eating them cause he has survived a year. i don't know how they got in there but i am glad. so thats what a amphipod looks like
Yeppers, always a good sign that your tank is healthy!!

 

[mbintraining]

That is a gammarus shrimp known as a pod on this site. All ampipods and copepods in the tank are great eaters of detritus. At night I shine a flashlight in there and you can see those gammarus collecting the snail poop. It is terrific that you have them. Some fish like my Scooter couldn't live wo them. MBinTraining