Bad isopod?

[RMS18]

I can't tell if these guys are good or bad. This might be the reason to my zoas dying. They seem to match up with a images of isopods. If they are bad how do I kill them?

 

[NanaReefer]

Nope! Good Copepod!! Look to something else killing your zoo's cause that isn't it.

 

[RMS18]

Nope! Good Copepod!! Look to something else killing your zoo's cause that isn't it.

Here's another pic, are you sure it's a copeod?

This is the image that comes up for a copepod

 

[Dtackett]

yes, its a copepod.

 

[NanaReefer]

Yes I'm sure.

 

[RMS18]

I'm not sold its a copepod.. seems to fit a. munnid isopod better. http://www.seahorse.org/library/TESTING/hitch/isopod.shtml

 

[NanaReefer]

Regardless it is a harmless pod [emoji2]

 

[40Gallon]

bad isopod? wasn't Billy Bob Thornton in that?

 

[redfishbluefish]

That definitely is an isopod!

 

[RMS18]

That definitely is an isopod!

Thank you, can you also confirm that it is not harmful?

 

[whatchamacallit]

Harmless isopod

 

[RMS18]

Harmless isopod

Thanks

 

[redfishbluefish]

To be exact, it is a munnid isopod.....harmless.

 

[RMS18]

To be exact, it is a munnid isopod.....harmless.

That's what I thought it was and posted that to the first 2 people who replied it was a copepod. Just needed a confirmation. Thanks

 

[whatchamacallit]

If you really want to kill them, get a mystery wrasse ;) or any wrasse for that matter lol they'll get rid of your pod population

 

[RMS18]

If you really want to kill them, get a mystery wrasse ;) or any wrasse for that matter lol they'll get rid of your pod population

I have a flasher but don't think he eats them. Since they are harmless I don't care. I wasent sure at first as I have been losing lots of zoas and I see them crawling all over my zoas at night.