Isopod: friend or foe?

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I have pods that look exactly like these. Are they pests? Will they harm coral or fish? Or will they just clean things like most pods?

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Thank you. I'm pretty sure they are these ones. However the link from the page to the specific isn't working lol.


"""Some very tiny isopods appear to be relatively common in aquaria, and possibly are very widespread, although unreported in the hobby. These are members of the family Munnidae of the Suborder Asellota. Some Asellotids get large, and intertidal ones that act much like non-flying cockroaches are found in the high intertidal zone of areas in Florida and along the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island. However, the ones found in aquaria seem to be tiny little bugs, and are quite likely mis-identified by many aquarists as amphipods, even though the body is quite characteristically flattened in the isopod manner. They are distinguished from other isopods by having both pairs of antennae enlarged and evident and by rather "separate-appearing" segmentation when viewed from above."""


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