uh oh...isopods? hellp!

ok so thanks to one od the members i was informed that piece-of-the-reef sometimes has isopods in their orders so I just did a search on what they look like & i found a picture & i now i remember looking at my tank today & seeing a few on the front glass...what can i d?!?!?

 

Many isopods are not parasitic. Can you take a picture?

 

i tried taking a picture with the dig. camera this morning along w/ the copepods on the glass & i couldnt get it 2 focus enough to get a good picture unfortunately....here is the link of the picture i looked at & obviously it looks like the bigger of the two...http://www.reefs.org/hhfaq/bugs/munnidisopod/variant/medium

 

There are harmless and harmful isopods. It is very hard to tell them apart, which is why I opted to play it on the safe side when I received my bag-o-pods. Since the ones in my batch all died off after a week in solitude, while the amphipods and copepods remained alive, it would be safe to reason that they were parasitic since they had no host to leech off of.
Xtalreef
Take a look at the isopod section, it's a good read.

 

they're harmless if they look like the ones on the picture it is not common to get parasitic isopods in a home aquarium those in the picture i have a ton of, they are a part of ur cuc and fish food ,good luck

 

ok....phew..thats a sigh of relief for me cause I was hoping that they were harmless so thanks for the re-assuring me guys =)

 

I had some of those and the fish ate em.....

 

I just looked at the link, they large ones with all the legs are your standard amphipods and the smaller ones are copepods. I don't see any isopods in that image. All the ones shown in that link are reef safe; they are good food for the fishes.

 

alright thank you for the help....how have you been missionsix?