Question about cirolanid isopods

PorkchopExpress

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To my dismay I found one attached to a new clown I just bought last Friday. I was able to get it off and disposed of it leaving a tiny blood spot on the clown. With my fingers crossed I left for work hoping there was a slight chance I'd be lucky and there was only one. Well I got home and found another on the fin of my blenny. I'm heavily leaning towards quarantining the 3 fish that I have and starving these isopods out but my question is, do they also attack/eat crabs, snails, and anemones?

I've been doing research all day and apparently there's really not much I can do but starve them out for 6-9 months by removing any host fish in the tank or adding copper to the tank thereby killing my live rock. Any other options would be greatly appreciate.

Sorry this is my first post but I'm pretty bummed about this and needed to get some advice - I called the LFS and they said in 15 years in the business they've never had any experience with this and simply don't know what to do but the copper solution.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
 
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