ID of critter?? not seen in tank before

Neenie

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Jan 19, 2007
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Romford, UK
Morning.. well it is here in the UK and we've woken up to snow!!

We noticed a new hitchiker yesterday...

Just wondered if anyone could ID it for us....

Firstly no picture...

Reason: Had just fed the two clowns we have, and basically staring at the tank as you do... My husband noticed this white thing come flying out of the rock extremely fast!! very erratic as well, only about 1 to 2 cm in length, white or clear with brown bits on it.. moved so fast in and out of the rock, the clowns were fascinated by it and when it stopped they would investigate which would send it off again...

Anyway it landed at the front of our rock where we had a better look and the only way to describe it was whiteish looked a bit like a wood louse?? once on rock walked quite quickly too......

Anyway it flew off again and right into the filter inlet :huh: not to be seen again...... hence no picture...

I guess if there is one there is probably more ?

Anyone any ideas at all?

Thanks a lot

Neenie
 
Is it possible to find a picture online to ID it?
 
Hi..

yeah just don't know where to start to ID it....

is it a shrimp? I have no idea....
 
i had a simler experience in my tank about a week ago, i saw somthing come out of the rock really fast, buy it was yellowish brown in colour, it did'nt last long cause it swam right into the cleaner shrimp, and you know what he did.
it was quite funny.
 
I think it was probably more like 1cm in length, not mm.....
 
hehe, it was a ticked off ghost of an old fish... you took it away from its home, and it came back to haunt your aquarium... HAHAHA! sorry, i just thought it was funny to say that
 
Hi..

Well I caught a smaller one this morning.. seem to come out when feeding fish.. tried taking a picture but camera not good enough to focus on it

it definately looks like a wood louse two black eyes at the front.

Not amphipod I don't think, we have them running over the rock.. might have I.D'd it as an Isopod???

saved it for my husband to take a look at later...

but read isopods not a good thing to have????
 
yes isopods are bad...very bad most will kill your fish and some infestations require an entire tank break down and soaking of all the aquarium parts in freshwater. hopefully you can rid yourself of them. iv seen people remove the fish and treat them with copper and then leave the tank free of fish for 2 months so that the isopods starve but ive read they can lay dormant as well.
 
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