Another "What's this?"

[Steve Jones]

They are hard to see in this video, but we spotted them yesterday. They look like tiny fleas scurrying about on the rock. There are dozens of them on just one area of rock. Are these some stage of the bristleworm? Or are they something else?

 

[Duke4Life]

Pods

 

[Baby Ray]

Defiantly pods.

 

[Steve Jones]

I'm still a newbie to this. Pods? Good? Bad? Neutral?

 

[Duke4Life]

Good thing!

 

[Robink]

Good

 

[Baby Ray]

Pods are kind of like underwater bugs. They are very healthy fish food and will breed like crazy in a stable aquarium. They are kind of like a mini clean up crew :)

 

[Baby Ray]

There are also many different types of pods
tibse copepods
tigger copepods
amphipods
isopods
There are many more

 

[Steve Jones]

Ok. Cool. My Biocube is in the the process of 76 days going fallow after a Brooks breakout so there's not many nutrients in there except for a little bit that I add for the corals.

 

[Duke4Life]

Steve what part of KY?

 

[Steve Jones]

Near Bowling Green.

 

[Duke4Life]

Near Bowling Green.

Disc golf courses galore :)

 

[Maritimer]

Yours look a lot like mine - I think they're "munnid", but they're definitely isopods. Cousins to the sow bugs and roly-polies in your garden, and to the football-sized giant isopods of the deep sea, these guys will clean up tiny detritus and provide food for everything from dragonets to wrasses.

Nice to have around!

~Bruce

 

[Baby Ray]

Yours look a lot like mine - I think they're "munnid", but they're definitely isopods. Cousins to the sow bugs and roly-polies in your garden, and to the football-sized giant isopods of the deep sea, these guys will clean up tiny detritus and provide food for everything from dragonets to wrasses.

Nice to have around!

~Bruce

Exactly!!!! ;)

 

[chrisver13]

Anybody know what type of crab this is? And if it's reef safe?

 

[Roboson]

I don't know what kind it is, I like him.

 

[Maritimer]

Looks more similar to a "squat lobster". Cool, but not sure if safe.

@Lionfish Lair ? (She's good. Like, _really_ good.)

~Bruce

 

[Lionfish Lair]

SQUEE!! It's a little galathea squat lobster.

I'm good? I'm not the one who guessed it!

 

[Roboson]

SQUEE!! It's a little galathea squat lobster.

I'm good? I'm not the one who guessed it!

I'm quite jealous. That's a really cool hitchhiker.

 

[chrisver13]

So I'm assuming he is reef safe then. ;)