Creature feature

[planefish99]

Hello everyone.

Picked up chalice coral today and this guy was attached to it.. about the size of a 50 cent piece…any idea what this thing is?? It never made it into the tank..thank god.

 

[Fish Fan]

Looks to me to be an amphipod. A very good part of both your clean up crew and food for some fish. If you found one, you have many more, and that's not a bad thing.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/are-amphipods-good-for-our-aquariums.1047134/

 

[Science/G]

It's an amphipod. Totally safe.