Isopod?

[vetteguy53081]

Its a camel shrimp

 

[ChelseaBidwell]

Its a camel shrimp

Didn't even know those were a thing! His stripes are more like the peppermint though. Unless LA messed up. He's really pale, not nearly as colorful as our other one. Probably due to the iso.

 

[Katrina71]

Good job on the podectomy!

 

[ChelseaBidwell]

Good job on the podectomy!

Thank you! I definitely learned something interesting this week. It's good to know they can be removed without having to medicate!

 

[Earl Karl]

This is why I don't have a clean up crew anymore lol. Even though rarely, they can bring in nasty things. Had a cleaner shrimp that brought in flatworms.

 

[ChelseaBidwell]

This is why I don't have a clean up crew anymore lol. Even though rarely, they can bring in nasty things. Had a cleaner shrimp that brought in flatworms.

Oh no! I thought inverts were pretty safe as far as parisites go? But I guess there are those few exceptions. We got them with our Clean Up Crew about 2 months ago (assuming he had the iso at the time) along with a cleaner shrimp, 2 emeralds, an arrow crab- he is AWESOME btw, a few nassarius/cerith snails, a blue leg hermit, and a scarlet hermit (he ate my hammer - was banished to the fuge). We got a brittle sea star too, but he doesn't do much lol. I think that's about all we're gonna have as far as inverts go.

 

[Earl Karl]

I don't think I will ever have a clean up crew ever again, my new 100 gallon has zero inverts beside some feeder shrimp that my pencil wrasse eats. My fish like to munch on inverts a bit anyways and my tank is pretty much algae free.

You still have to qt inverts as ich can latch on to their shell or carapace as a substrate during their tomont stage.

The only inverts I might consider one day are tuxedo or some fancy pincushion urchins. Hopefully my harley don't eat them if I do choose to put them in. But at least I know they are least likely to bring something in as long they don't have anything on their back.

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

I wanted to bump this thread in case there is anyone else out there that runs across this issue. I did some research and this is a bopyrid isopod. A parasite specific to shrimp.