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Topic: ID please
Posted By: peregrinus
Subject: ID please
Date Posted: May 05 2004 at 4:49pm
I was moving some rocks in my tank and found this guy. any one know what he is? he's white looks like a centipede many leggs.


it almost looks like a baby mantis?
Brian

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Posted By: reptoreef
Date Posted: May 05 2004 at 6:44pm
I posted on the rf site.


Posted By: peregrinus
Date Posted: May 05 2004 at 7:17pm
cool thanxs i did too.. lol

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Posted By: Jake Pehrson
Date Posted: May 06 2004 at 7:50am

It's a maggot.

Just kidding, it is really a little wormy looking thing.



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Posted By: peregrinus
Date Posted: May 06 2004 at 8:47am
lol eeekkkkkk my tank has worm thingies..

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Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: May 06 2004 at 9:04am
By the look of its mandibles, I'd say it eats worms and anything it can catch. Many of us or perhaps all of us probably have them but don't know it.
I love the cycle of life
Thanks for sharing your discovery.

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Posted By: peregrinus
Date Posted: May 06 2004 at 9:21am
one thing i noticed when i turn it over it has the moving fins like on a shrimps abdomen. don't know it that helps..

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In Clearfield

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Posted By: smatney
Date Posted: July 09 2004 at 9:46pm
I have one in my tank right now as well.  I agree, it looks like a centipede.  Mine was orangish brown.  It does not like light, I'll try to find it in the night.  What is it?

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Posted By: Jamison
Date Posted: July 13 2004 at 9:37am

Looks like an Isopod. I've seen pics on RC before. Some of them can be nasty and para http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=isopod/v=2/l=IVI/*-http://www.hsu.edu/faculty/engmanj/jamaica/pics2001/isopod.jpg"> sitic to your fish. Not sure if that's it or not, but it looks alot like one.

Perhaps this link will help too.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-05/rs/index.htm - http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-05/rs/index.htm



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Posted By: peregrinus
Date Posted: July 13 2004 at 9:54am
don't think its the same thing. i seen that when i was researching. but they don't look the same.

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Posted By: rstruhs
Date Posted: July 13 2004 at 4:39pm

Originally posted by peregrinus peregrinus wrote:

don't think its the same thing. i seen that when i was researching. but they don't look the same.

Of course not, you did not have a fish under yours! 

Has anyone ID'd it yet?  I have been waiting/watching to find out what it is!



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Posted By: coreyk
Date Posted: July 13 2004 at 4:47pm

its not a chiton is it?



Posted By: Mark Peterson
Date Posted: July 14 2004 at 9:46am
No, it's not a Chiton. Chiton have a total covering of segmented shell, like an armadillo. The pic below shows the typical position we find Chiton. The shell is on the other side, of course. This pic is from Seti007's tank. I love that tunnel it is leaving in the sand bed!

Anyone know the free swimming form of an isopod or how many of the different isopods actually attach to fish?

Wouldn't a cleaner shrimp take care of them when small?



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