freaky lookin pod...hopefully

sir_dudeguy · 06/28/2006, 10:42 AM

ok, can someone post a link to a site that has pictures of all or a bunch of different types of pods that can end up in your tank? my attempt at a google of it didnt work...anyways, i just turned on the light in my tank, and this weird lookin bug went running...only it wasnt tiny like all my other pods that i've seen. It was about the size (if not just a tad bigger) than those big red ants. It was kinda silver/off white, and i know it had a bunch of legs, but it ran so fast that i didnt even get that good of a look at it...but if i see a pic of it i'd be able to recognize it. It was kinda chubby lookin too lol.

thanks

sir_dudeguy · 06/28/2006, 10:51 AM

ok i found a couple of links to some, but i'd still like a link to a page w/all teh dif pods if anyone knows of one. also, does anyone know if these 2 pods can get to the size of those big red ants?

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ok, i think it looked more like the one in the top left of the second link (not sure if those other ones in the pic are the same or not, but he looked like the top left one mostly)

lemme know what you think!

Travis L. Stevens · 06/28/2006, 10:53 AM

Most likely an Amphipod. Harmless detrivore.

sir_dudeguy · 06/28/2006, 11:29 AM

thats the one looks just like that. Thanks! and like many other critters, if i've got one, surely i've got more? hopefully, because dont the fish and stuff eat them? and do they multiply fast? Somwhat resently i got a HOB fuge w/live sand and chaeto..theres a fair few of the really small guys, but there was nothin this big...i'm guessing this just grew from that?

jaymz101 · 06/28/2006, 11:33 AM

if youve got one, youve got more. Fish love em and they will be self sustaining as long as they have somewhere to breed where the fish can get (like a pile of rubble that the fish cant get into or topple)

melev · 06/28/2006, 11:33 AM

Try this site, which is link in the New To The Hobby forum. Turn off your pop up stopper to click on the images.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=354760

And let me know if I can answer any questions, over in that thread or in this one.

sir_dudeguy · 06/28/2006, 12:41 PM

wow great site! i've been there before too, but i forgot all about it. after lookin at the pics, i now know that what i saw was an amphipod, and i've also seen isopod(s) before but only a couple times.

thanks

06/28/2006, 10:42 AM	#1
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	freaky lookin pod...hopefully ok, can someone post a link to a site that has pictures of all or a bunch of different types of pods that can end up in your tank? my attempt at a google of it didnt work...anyways, i just turned on the light in my tank, and this weird lookin bug went running...only it wasnt tiny like all my other pods that i've seen. It was about the size (if not just a tad bigger) than those big red ants. It was kinda silver/off white, and i know it had a bunch of legs, but it ran so fast that i didnt even get that good of a look at it...but if i see a pic of it i'd be able to recognize it. It was kinda chubby lookin too lol. thanks

06/28/2006, 10:53 AM	#3
Travis L. Stevens Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Perry, OK Posts: 13,946	Most likely an Amphipod. Harmless detrivore. __________________ Travis Stevens Current Tank Info: Restarting 28g Bowfront

06/28/2006, 11:29 AM	#4
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	thats the one looks just like that. Thanks! and like many other critters, if i've got one, surely i've got more? hopefully, because dont the fish and stuff eat them? and do they multiply fast? Somwhat resently i got a HOB fuge w/live sand and chaeto..theres a fair few of the really small guys, but there was nothin this big...i'm guessing this just grew from that? __________________ TAKE...LUCK!!!

06/28/2006, 11:33 AM	#5
jaymz101 Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: St. Pete, FL Posts: 410	if youve got one, youve got more. Fish love em and they will be self sustaining as long as they have somewhere to breed where the fish can get (like a pile of rubble that the fish cant get into or topple) __________________ In 96 hours, Jack Bauer has killed 93 people and saved the world 4 times. What have you done with your life? Current Tank Info: Lobo, local Oculina, Acro., hydnophora, lots of zoas, caulastrea, pagoda and scroll, foxface flasher wrass and firefish

06/28/2006, 12:41 PM	#7
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	wow great site! i've been there before too, but i forgot all about it. after lookin at the pics, i now know that what i saw was an amphipod, and i've also seen isopod(s) before but only a couple times. thanks __________________ TAKE...LUCK!!!

06/28/2006, 10:51 AM	#2
sir_dudeguy Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 10,841	ok i found a couple of links to some, but i'd still like a link to a page w/all teh dif pods if anyone knows of one. also, does anyone know if these 2 pods can get to the size of those big red ants? pod pod ok, i think it looked more like the one in the top left of the second link (not sure if those other ones in the pic are the same or not, but he looked like the top left one mostly) lemme know what you think!

06/28/2006, 11:33 AM	#6
melev Moved On Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Ft Worth, Tx Posts: 43,217	Try this site, which is link in the New To The Hobby forum. Turn off your pop up stopper to click on the images. http://reefcentral.com/forums/showth...hreadid=354760 And let me know if I can answer any questions, over in that thread or in this one.