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munnid isopod - fyi; A different kind of critter in your tank
Topic Started: Feb 6 2010, 08:44:24 PM (908 Views)
Post #1 Feb 6 2010, 08:44:24 PM Amie
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I've had this type of isopod in my tank for years and have searched and searched to try and find out if it was a good or bad thing, and I finally stumbled across it's name today. It's called a munnid isopod, and it's one of the good guys. Not to be confused with the isopods that are parasites to fish, these little guys look a lot like amphipods, but they do not 'curl'. If you have them, you would have noticed them crawling on your glass. They are herbivores.
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Post #2 Feb 6 2010, 09:07:41 PM Clint
Cool, I thought they were baby amphipods.
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Post #3 Feb 6 2010, 09:20:42 PM fisher32
I had those, I wondered what they were. When my sump crashed so did they and all my pods. I'm hoping they layed eggs and are in a stage of dormancy.
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Post #4 Feb 8 2010, 01:35:04 AM Amie
Oh good, I was hoping I wasn't the only one that didn't know what they were before now. Bob, I had them completely disappear from a tank that crashed and they just barely showed up again, so obviously there were eggs in the sand or something to that effect. They are obviously pretty sturdy.
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Post #5 Feb 8 2010, 08:51:01 AM Suzy
I thought they were baby amphopods. Sweet!
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Post #6 Feb 26 2010, 07:39:36 PM fisher32
They haven't showed up yet...my diversity must have been shot to hell.
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Post #7 Feb 27 2010, 07:56:09 AM Suzy
Come get some! We can repopulate it easy enough....
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Post #8 Feb 27 2010, 08:16:41 PM Amie
I agree, you just need a handful of macroalgae from one of our tanks and you should be set to go.
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Post #9 May 14 2010, 06:00:23 PM Amie
Hey Bob, how the tank looking? Did the macroalgae help?
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