Pod ID?

[Gordonious]

I found some VERY large pods in some LR I was QTing. They are amphipods I believe because they are laterally compressed, but they just look a bit odd to me. They have a good amount of color and almost look as if there limbs are longer or there are more of them then most I have seen. I could just be being paranoid, but I wanted to make sure they were ok.

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Jon

 

[reefnetworth]

Tigerpods.

John M

 

[mano]

Amphipods....normal

 

[ricks]

Ipods... Listen for music...

 

[Gordonious]

**Cough ** *

***Ipods suck***

*Cough***
**Cough**

Excuse me. Must have something in my throat.

 

[Randall_James]

Gammarus Shrimp? (Amphipod)

 

[Gordonious]

The first thing I see when I Google, "Gammarus Shrimp" is freshwater shrimp. This is a LR hitchhiker, so I dunno. It's salinity is currently over 1.03

Jon

 

[matter1331]

I would say amphipod

 

[ClamIAm]

Gammarus is the genus

 

[LeslieH]

It's an amphipod. They occur in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. Gammarus is a genus of fresh water amphipods; Gammaridea is a suborder in the order Amphipoda and that's what we refer to when we say gammarid.

 

[Gordonious]

Worm Wrangler huh? Like for blood worms on the show dirty jobs on the TV?

 

[LeslieH]

:lol: No, I mostly manage a couple hundred thousand dead ones in a museum.

 

[Gordonious]

lol wow I didn't think it could get worse, lol. jk How did you end up with that job?

 

[LeslieH]

Hey, some of us LOVE worms! 10 years at a marine research agency identifying inverts & algae from surveys, 2 years with a marine consulting company doing worms, 4 years at an university museum taking care of their worms, then LA Co. and in another 30 years I'll probably be found early one morning slumped lifeless over my microscope.......with some worms under it. :lol:

 

[ReefObsessor805]

LOL.

 

[Gordonious]

I always meet the experts on the things my animals like to eat. At school there is a huge entomology department and I'm into herps. Online and in the marine bio lab I used to work at it was people that study pods and worms and I'm into the larger crustaceans that eat them. I think if I ever get into a grad school I want to study crabs.