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02/27/2021, 02:16 AM | #1 |
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Amohipods with Spearer appendages like Mantis shrimp
Was just looking at my pods and noticed some had some quite large claws similar to a speared mantis.
I know I don’t have a bunch of baby mantis in my tank - wondering if this is a common phenomenon or a result of an inbred pod population. |
03/06/2021, 07:41 PM | #3 |
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Can't see the photo, but my amphipods are a blue-ish tint with mantis like appendages they use for grabbing food and clearing substrate from their burrows.
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03/08/2021, 07:42 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for the reply / never really got my photos moved to a good site after RC closed their gallery.
Glad to know others see this too and these things are not mutating to take over my tank. |
03/08/2021, 10:30 AM | #6 |
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Yeah, they make little burrows. Nothing too fancy ;p
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Dotty the firefish, Delilah and Little Henry Ocellaris clownfish, Pixel (convict tang) and Darwin (blue tang), pyjama cardinalfish, Riku and Kenji the orchid and elongate dottybacks, and Jeremy (yello Current Tank Info: 160g reef tank with mushrooms, leathers, zoas, SPS corals, NPS corals, firefish, a school of pyjama cardinalfish, a pair of designer Ocellaris, two tangs, a striped blenny, two dottybacks, and a watchman goby |
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