Hello. I purchased maricultured live rock about a month ago. I fairly quickly saw a cirolanid isopod and tried the stinky water method and bottle trap method…which was unsuccessful. I eventually caught one and haven’t seen another for two weeks until my rock work fell and I ended up redoing it this morning.
I felt a weird sharp pain sensation and noticed a different one had latched on.
These things are crazy… I had one in a tiny bit of stagnant water for 4 days and it didn’t die and consumed a bristle worm larvae that was in the same bowl.
I can’t in good conscience put a fish in there knowing that could be in there. Any extra ideas on how to ensure I have eradicated them all and/or ways to do it that actually work?
Pics: green background was this morning, others were a bigger one I found a few weeks ago.
I felt a weird sharp pain sensation and noticed a different one had latched on.
These things are crazy… I had one in a tiny bit of stagnant water for 4 days and it didn’t die and consumed a bristle worm larvae that was in the same bowl.
I can’t in good conscience put a fish in there knowing that could be in there. Any extra ideas on how to ensure I have eradicated them all and/or ways to do it that actually work?
Pics: green background was this morning, others were a bigger one I found a few weeks ago.