I just got a pretty price of live rock and was excited until I found out that I Brought isopods into my reef tank. What do I do?
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Isopods are good things. They are GREAT things. Don't even give a second thought to them, except for the fact they will be food for your future coral.... should you choose to go that direction. Their populations naturally wax and wane and I really can't imagine a tank without them.
Sorry to Zombie a thread
Are you sure they're not gammarid amphipods?
Two aqauriums in two weeks infected with the nasty. So green puffers andGuys, there are several different types of isopods. Some are as harmless as amphipods, others are really nasty fish parasites.
What kind of isopods do you have?
I would assume they wouldn't be selling the hyperpredatory onesSorry to Zombie a thread, but I never knew there were bad isopods. I've been buying and adding them to my tank for years.
Probably when the predartory ones started to increase in prevalence and kill everything in your tank in a absolutely horrifying way. All I have left right now after the isopods killed everything else is a solitary Mexican Red Legged Hermit crab who I've helped survive by using a pipette to send a jet of water and the smaller parasite ones attacking it. But the dude's held his own, he even got up on a shell to have the strategic advantage of the high ground when a lot were closing in on him. He also has killed the smaller blood sucking ones, or maybe the were the larvae. Some of the blood suckers looked like more thin and more strikingly red that brine shrimp.The odds of you having a bad isopod are about the same as you finding a "true fireworm" amongst a bunch of common bristleworms. You will drive yourself insane if you try to eliminate all Isopods. Learn what types your tank needs and watch out for those very very very rare ones. The parasites, over the longterm if observed, will be found on your fish and not numerous. The 1000s you see on your glass, rock, what is feeding coral and feeding fish are GOOD Isopods. Pods are a part of the little ecosystems we are trying to create. When did this "Isopods are bad" trend start?