can anyone ID this?

[Ron448]

I've looked on the lionfishlair.com hitchhiker guide and it wasn't in there and i also already posted in the invert section but haven't gotten much feed back so i thought id try in the reef discussion but i found these crawling on a chalice and blasto frag and i want to know if they will be a problem

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[sean357]

Some type of Amphipod? Never see one with such a large body to tail ratio. Are they only on your coral or all over the tank? Try hitting you tank with a flash light after the lights have been off for a while if they are only on the coral you may have a problem, otherwise they are just cleaning up uneaten food and dead cells

 

[Ron448]

I've only seen two or three of them and the only times I've seen them they were on corals but didn't see any marks from them on the coral. They are also very tiny. That picture is through a stereoscope with magnification of 3x. Without the stereoscope pretty much all you can see is a whit dot. They are probably only about a millimeter if that

 

[Ron448]

Anybody have a clue?

 

[vikubz]

It's a pod. Unless you have some reason to think it is damaging the coral, don't sweat it. These and many others have been in your tank, you just didn't notice until now. A sign of a healthy tank.

 

[Ron448]

Pod as in copepod? I know what Copepods are and this thing is probably 10 times the size of one of those and I'd say about a quarter of the size of a regular amphipod. I've just never seen one of these things in the 4-5 years of have a reef. I took a little break from having a tank for a couple months and since then I've become aware of many more pests than I knew about in recent years and I don't want to take any chances

 

[joshky]

My guess is isopod, which do get larger.

 

[downbeach]

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-08/rs/index.php

 

[Proffugazi]

My guess is isopod, which do get larger.

That would be my guess, I have some that are 1/4 inch. My Clown goby Lovs Them. Yummy

Heres a video of some Giant deep sea isopods! How you like to find this in your tank? :eek1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peFkvVlh39U

 

[vikubz]

Looks kinda like the one on top right?

Eh, maybe not, but close.

 

[Ron448]

Well thanks for the help everyone but I still haven't found an accurate identification. I did look up the definition of isopod and it turns out isopod is a pretty broad term so it technically would be an isopod but since I'm not sure whether it's good or bad I removed it just to be safe