imagine finding this guy in your tank!

[bawla47]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Giant_isopod.jpg

 

[joeytroy]

That would be a terrible thing!

 

[Speckled Grouper]

It might taste like lobster..........:lol2:

 

[ashrem]

Think my mandarin would have a hard time eating those.

 

[nyvp]

if it stayed in my sump and kept my nitrates down ... I say live and let live

 

[REDDAWG43]

Heck, I'd give it his/her own tank....lol

 

[acrodave]

i belive thos are from super deep water

 

[LouPhoenix]

The smaller Isopods (about 1 - 2 inches long) that are found in shallow beach sand in South America are fried and eaten with butter and a slice of fresh lime. A delicious delicacy!

That giant one does look like a roach on steroids, though :lol:

 

[LouPhoenix]

Here is a shot of the little gourmet isopods... yes, they do taste like lobster! :eek2:

or a link if the pic doesn't work...

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s237/louphoenix/muymuy.jpg

 

[Husky_1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9591737#post9591737 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LouPhoenix
Here is a shot of the little gourmet isopods... yes, they do taste like lobster! :eek2:

or a link if the pic doesn't work...

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s237/louphoenix/muymuy.jpg

Are these the same thing you can find in daytona during the summer?

 

[LouPhoenix]

Possibly since they are very common, but I've never seen the ones from Daytona myself.

 

[Husky_1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9592306#post9592306 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by LouPhoenix
Possibly since they are very common, but I've never seen the ones from Daytona myself.

When we were kids, my grandparents use to take us down from connecticut to Daytona for a week or so. I remember they would come to the surface when a wave would roll in, and when it went back out, they would scurry to bury themselves below the surface.

 

[TorryRx]

Aren't those the same thing as sand fleas?

 

[sagitariuscbc]

check them out here...
http://filecabi.net/video/Deepseafeast.html
makes my skin crawl!~)

!~)

 

[sytanek]

That pic is of a sand flea, aka sand crab. I don't believe it has enough legs to be a larger isopod, but I could be wrong.

 

[itz frank]

I found this in my tank the morning before last. Took a crane to haul it out of my nano.

 

[ahoyhoy239]

great white? big deal...

i had a whale shark larvae hitch hike on my live rock, now he just lays in my living room while i pump water and plankton into his mouth...

:eek2:

lol i dont know if whale sharks even go through a larval phase or whatever...anyways...if i seriously saw that isopod thing in my tank, even if it was half an inch long, i would definately get it out of there asap...same as the mantis and pistol shrimp that hiked on my rock. the pistol was obvious, i could hear it snap all night. the mantis though, hes a sneakly little bastard, i thought i was seeing things until one day i searched through the rock with a flashlight and saw his little bubble eyes staring at me...it was game over then :smokin:

 

[sytanek]

lol, I know how the mantis hunt goes! Theres at least one more in my tank, gonna attempt to catch him tomorow night, since I've found his home. Why get rid of the pistol shrimp tho?