Strange Anthias MIA occurrence?

This should help you out:

Cirolanid Isopod Capture Techniques, Feeding Habits and Mortality Testing by Brian Plankis - Reefkeeping.com

 

Well, I observed the fish and found the Anthias had discarded the bug on it's own. He's acting like nothing happened. Unless the Cleaner Shrimp ate it which I read is a distinct possibility?
I'm waiting for Robin at the Barrier Reef in Boca to get to work so I can ask him about it. He's very experienced in the hobby. I'll let you all know what he says. I will say this, if I have to ditch my 200+lbs of expensive rock I'll be devastated. I've been adding some beautiful pieces of rock in preparation for this move and it would kill me to throw it all away! Here is a picture I just took and you can see where this thing took a piece of the top fin from the fish.

 

You don't have to ditch the rock but you'll definitely want to plan on following some of the advice given on that website that I provided the link to. Maybe you can observe your tank at night as is suggested on that site to see if you have any more. I highly doubt that the shrimp ate the isopod. Most likely it dropped off on its own because it's full. It will most likely reattach to your fish once it gets hungry again.

 

OK I took the pictures of the Anthias fish with the parasite and the next day with it gone over to the Barrier Reef in Boca Raton. Robin, who is a highly regarded professional that has been at that store for some 20 years looked at the pictures and his reply was quite nonchalant.

Now this is going to be debated here I'm sure but he asked me if I had a fairy wrasse or some kind or cleaner shrimp! As it turns out I have a Solar Wrasse and 2 Cleaner Shrimp. His contention is that the wrasse and shrimp will eat these parasites at will.

Like I said in my opening thread I had forgotten to replug the moonlights in on Wednesday and this occured on Thursday and these things are nocturnal and only come out when it's pitch black. I'm going to have to hope for the best as I have about $1000 - $1500 invested in rock. Heck, that's a lot of money. I don't care about losing the sand as that's less than $150. I'm just going to seed my new live sand with a cup of my old sand that has been well sifted by my diamond and sleeper goby. I will be checking for these bugs at night in the future and take action if it becomes a problem.
Keep me in your prayers for now as you wouldn't want to see a grown man cry now would ya.

 

I broke down the 120 and carefully moved the rocks over to the new 210. I found that little isopod and disposed of him pronto! I have no immediate plans to transfer the sand as I'm a little afraid of pushing my luck. I might sift through a cupful but that's about it. I have some fresh Caribsea live Bahamas Oolite and would prefer a fresh start.