Isopod...or something else?

allendehl

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Found 3 swimming all over my tank like crazy yesterday. Thought they were some sort of baby fish and scoop them out to a jar.
Help ID please.
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Parasitic isopod. Catch them asap. As a rule of thumb if they have big black eyes and swim, they are bad.
 
Parasitic isopod. Catch them asap. As a rule of thumb if they have big black eyes and swim, they are bad.
Thank you!! Good thing I was able to catch all I saw. Interesting thing is that all 3 came out at the same time to swim.
How could have they make it into the tank? I have only 4 fish that went through TTM and 2 weeks of QT. The live rock has been in the tank for about 5 weeks now.

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They came in on the liverock. Observe the tank a few hrs after light go off to see if there are more.
 
I was fishing in hawaii once and one of those F'ers latched onto me! [emoji49] good luck getting those out of your tank


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