There is a bug in my tank

[tenwhiteduke]

After having my tank now for over 3 months, tonight I was looking into my tank with the moon lights on, and this bug came right at me onto the glass in front of my face. Kinda white, transparent color, had legs, like a cross between a shrimp and a termite. Looked like a termite to me. could swim, but once it got to a rock, was just crawling all over until i got a flashlight, and he hid into some crevis inside the rock.

Any ideas of what this could be?

 

[drummereef]

Amphipod, perhaps?

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-10/rs/index.php

 

[tenwhiteduke]

how do you get rid of it

 

[fishyvet]

pods are good for your tank

 

[tenwhiteduke]

copepods are but not amphipods right!

 

[jer77]

How big was it? Amphipods are also good detrivores.

 

[tenwhiteduke]

it was about 1/4"

 

[tenwhiteduke]

bump

 

[Sepeku]

I would not be concerned actually. Amphipods are beneficial.

Have a pic?

 

[Paintbug]

take a look here. http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchpods.html my guess would be a Isopod by the description.

 

[BigPerm1]

I have those too man. It's what my new Maderine can hunt if it wants. Yeah, the weird things that exists in a sw tank.

I never new I'd have such a collection of stuff I never knew I had. Things just grow.

I got my setup, i figure I'd have what I bought. Nope, I had all type of craps (ejected the baddies, kept the emeralds - they are awesome), two very small sea urchins which are quite large now and a plethera of other things that I never knew I had. They just come out of nowhere it seems. Every time I spend time looking in the tank, I see something else I never knew I had.

What a great hobby

 

[OrangeKoi]

I saw one amphipod in my tank that was 1/2 inch long. I guess they get pretty big! Incredible eh?

 

[sunfish11]

I got my setup, i figure I'd have what I bought. Nope, I had all type of craps

That has got to be tough on water quality when you have so many types of craps.


Seriously though it does sound like an isopod. Some of the really big ones cirilinoid (sp?) isolpods are fish parasites. 99% of them are good though. Even after years new stuff pops out of your live rock and sand. It is always fun to find new things (unless they are $%^&#@ flatworms).

Lisa