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gotbags-10
03/25/2013, 05:20 PM
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This guy just popped up out of nowhere. Is he safe?. It's about a cm long


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gotbags-10
03/25/2013, 05:27 PM
I also have about 10 of these guys too. 225246


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cloak
03/25/2013, 05:55 PM
It's kind of hard to tell what kind of snail that is from that angle, but if I had to guess, I would say a Stomatella snail. (harmless)
The other two things look like an isopod of some sort.

Check this out.

http://www.lionfishlair.com/hitchhiker/hitchhiker.shtml

Live Tanks
03/25/2013, 05:57 PM
Stomatella varia

kurt_n
03/26/2013, 12:59 PM
1st picture looks like stomatella, but that 2nd picture looks like isopods. Isopods will look like potato bugs (sow bugs, rolly polly bugs... you pick your name for them!).

cloak
03/26/2013, 01:08 PM
Here's a good article.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2002-05/rs/

OregonReefer2
03/26/2013, 01:17 PM
The second pic looks like the pods that attach to fish like a leach... I can't think of the name off the top of my head

meisel1
03/26/2013, 02:51 PM
+1 stomatella...the isopods I would remove....depending on what type they are they can get big

SushiGirl
03/26/2013, 04:47 PM
The pods look like sand skaters, which are harmless. I guess it would depend on how big they are whether I'm right or not. Sphaeromatid isopods.

Sugar Magnolia
03/26/2013, 05:19 PM
The pods look like sand skaters, which are harmless. I guess it would depend on how big they are whether I'm right or not. Sphaeromatid isopods.


Pull one or two out a take some close up pics. Sphaeromatids are harmless. They can also curl up like a pill bug. Cirolanids are parasitic on fish. They can't curl up.

SushiGirl
03/26/2013, 07:54 PM
The forked tail on the one is what made me think skaters. I don't recall ever seeing that on a Cirolanid.

downbeach
03/27/2013, 05:45 AM
Some info on Cirolanid's here:

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/bp/index.php