Kicbak Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Any ideas? much larger then the normal pods I see and huge black eyes..... Link to comment
schaferfred Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 God, I hate the looks of those things. Link to comment
revance Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 I dunno about the kritter, but the pics are awesome, especially of that dime. Link to comment
Kicbak Posted July 23, 2004 Author Share Posted July 23, 2004 They are nasty looking buggers. I pitched it. I have a filter on the return pump so hopefully none will make it into the display tank. It must have came from some macro I recently got. Prolly starving to death when I found it this morning. Link to comment
oldtimer Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Watch any fish in your system very carefully. These will attach to a fish and eat blood and tissue. Some larger ones can eat an entire fish leaving only the skeleton and guts in a matter of minutes. They are very fast and can outswim any fish. Good luck! Link to comment
Kicbak Posted July 23, 2004 Author Share Posted July 23, 2004 I just scanned all my fish(only 5) and they all are clean. I'm not going to remove the filter on the return for a long time unless I pull the whole pump out so nothing can sneak past. Link to comment
jmt Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 If you found him in the sump, then you might be ok. I'd scan the sump for more, and possibly break it down and rebuild it if anymore are found. -Justin Link to comment
kappa Posted July 23, 2004 Share Posted July 23, 2004 Disqusting looking. That guy looks like that alien in the movie "Breeders." It lives in an old broken down subway station and comes out at night time and rapes womens and lay eggs inside of them. Link to comment
nano-nemo Posted July 24, 2004 Share Posted July 24, 2004 did it roll into a ball? if it did then its a harmless pod-a spheriod (sp?) with eyes that big though......remember little red riding hood when she asked about big eyes......id have to put my money on it being a parasite, there would be no need for a scavanger to have eyes like that Link to comment
kappa Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 That is a kind of ectoparasite. It is a kind of parasite which hosts fish on the outside. I took this picture from the Fish magazine using my cellular phone, then I croped it down. Link to comment
AReeferIsExpensive Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 nanonemo- cirolanid's roll into balls too... http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/showthread...light=cirolanid Link to comment
nano-nemo Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 thats news to me, thanks for the heads up. Link to comment
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