Flashlight watching..

Willie_6 · #1 03/31/2005, 12:24 AM

I have a white thing crawling on my class. I have never seen him before. I found him with a flash light, so I guessing he is nocturnal. He is the size and shape of a tic tac and has antenae, or some kind of fellers coming from his head. Anybody know what he is?

jcwordslinger · #2 03/31/2005, 08:32 AM

snail perhaps? Without a shell?

Willie_6 · #3 03/31/2005, 08:32 AM

Nobody knows what the mysterious tic tac looking object is on my glass?

TimD · #4 03/31/2005, 08:49 AM

Isopod? Does it look like a pill bug or "potato bug?"

Or it could be a copepod... does it look like this?

If it's a copepod, that's a good thing.

Willie_6 · #5 03/31/2005, 09:18 AM

It's hard to tell if that picture is a match for mine. It's obviously been magnified. My little critter is literally a white tic tac. Has the exact same size and shape. I could not noutice a lot of legs, but I know there are 2 antenna's coming from his head. Sorry about the vague description.

TimD · #6 03/31/2005, 10:18 AM

Any chance you could get a picture of it? That would help immensely.

Willie_6 · #7 03/31/2005, 10:31 AM

Hmmmm....that's a toughy. I don't know if my digital camera will pick it up, but I can try. The other thing is I have to catch him wondering again. I'll be checking again tonight and will see what I can do.

rtc_reefer · #8 03/31/2005, 11:46 AM

?amphipod? do a google image search on this word.

Willie_6 · #9 03/31/2005, 12:06 PM

I would say no. It had a smooth back. The amphipods I sam have ridges. The critter I have looks exactly like a tic tac, with antennas.

tanker · #10 03/31/2005, 01:50 PM

Think it is a snail. The shell-less one. Forgot the name (Stombella??)

loyalty · #11 03/31/2005, 02:50 PM

small white, rear is concave terminating into two little points?
i was told they were flatworms

Willie_6 · #12 03/31/2005, 03:12 PM

If it is a flatworm is it good, or bad?

TimD · #13 03/31/2005, 03:16 PM

Good.

loyalty · #14 03/31/2005, 03:16 PM

don't really know..mine all vanished

khan · #15 04/07/2005, 02:49 PM

I saw something very similar, with antennae, it was a mysis shrimp, google search the image.

lawdog · #16 04/07/2005, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by TimD
Good.

NOT GOOD>..... Flat Worms are not good for your system. Most consider them very bad pests and buy items such as flat worm exit to take care of them.

Sounds like a small stomatella (SP?) snail. Should have a little off colored smooth shell on its back with two antennaes. I have a ton of them in my system. They are good.

If it is flatworms you need to watch them closely cause they can take over your tank.

TimD · #17 04/07/2005, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Flat Worms are not good for your system.

You are correct. I must have been thinking of something else when I posted that.

longt · #18 04/07/2005, 05:10 PM

amphipod-------> copapod. It seems to be a juvinile. they are gret if you have a mandrin. but if you want a madrin let your tank mature for a few months to get tons of those. They are not a threat in any way