BTA Has BUGS!!!

[Shawnts106]

Hey you guys, I just got my first RBTA , well... it was sent as a rose, but in face has a metalic dark green base (not foot) and Metalic Orange Bubbles... its a nice healthy specimen, I work at a LFS and got it dirrectly out of the shipping bag.

I brought it home, drip aclimated it, carefully placed it in a spot Id thought it would like, and it has only moved a few inches overnight ( 8 hours )

Its bubbles are "bubbly"

I have noticed last night, it periodically shrinks a tenticle in all of a sudden... in further inspection I noticed these white/clear tiny bugs running on its tenticles, stopping only to... what seemed, to catch their breath for a few seconds...

these "bugs" are really agrivating the anemone ...

What are they? Are they a possible ecto-parisite?

They are flat, almost round and whitish/clear...



Im a bit worried these are bad... Hopefully they are just some species of symbiotic microinvert...

what are your thoughts?

 

[TheVillageIdiot]

a clear, sharp picture is worth a 1,000 descriptive words, if you want to be sure.

 

[apayne]

I see clear shrimp running on my nem every night, the nems don't seam to mind. Maybe yours just needs to get use to them.

Good luck,
Aaron

 

[Shawnts106]

These dont appear to be shrimp.. but rather a round Isopod like creature..

There is NO WAY I can get a picture of this critter.

 

[dc]

Anything like this? These are isopods

 

[Shawnts106]

No, much smaller, more compact, flatter and round.

 

[fischcrazy]

cirolanid isopods?