I was surprised to find a couple of these guys stuck to my Intank media basket when cleaning up the back of my IM Nuvo 10g with TBS live rock/sand yesterday. One was pretty dead and the other 9 legs out the door, but still alive enough to react a bit to a poke from my pipette tip.
I'm almost sure that these are spheromatids or something other than the infamous cirolanids, because 1) I've never seen them parasitizing my tailspot blenny or exquisite firefish, and 2) the not-quite-dead-yet isopods kind of curled a bit when I poke it (but certainly not the extent of a roly poly, just curved inwards a bit).
Just thought I'd check with the resident hitchhiker experts. It is an office tank, so I'm not around at night to see what comes out to play. Maybe @ying yang ?
Dead one:
I'm almost sure that these are spheromatids or something other than the infamous cirolanids, because 1) I've never seen them parasitizing my tailspot blenny or exquisite firefish, and 2) the not-quite-dead-yet isopods kind of curled a bit when I poke it (but certainly not the extent of a roly poly, just curved inwards a bit).
Just thought I'd check with the resident hitchhiker experts. It is an office tank, so I'm not around at night to see what comes out to play. Maybe @ying yang ?
Dead one: