Can anyone ID this filter sock find?

Dunshster · #1 10/29/2007, 12:33 AM

I was switching my filter socks along with my water change tonight and when I threw the old ones in the bucket this small shrimplike/wormlike thing started swimming around. Please excuse the poor pic as this thing was very hard to focus on. It is about .5 - .75cm long and mostly clear. It has some antennae or something on its head. In the image it is curled up, but when it swims it straightens out and swims almost like a shrimp. The tank has been setup for roughly 6 months.

Michael7979 · #2 10/29/2007, 12:35 AM

Blurry picture but looks like a 'pod'.

LeslieH · #3 10/29/2007, 01:24 AM

It's an amphipod. Got any hungry mandarins?

Dunshster · #4 10/29/2007, 02:19 AM

Wow if thats a pod, its a mutant, its like 4x bigger than all the other pods I see

AMIFL · #5 10/29/2007, 07:08 AM

definately an amphipod

styndall · #6 10/29/2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally posted by Dunshster
Wow if thats a pod, its a mutant, its like 4x bigger than all the other pods I see

Some types of amphipods can get quite large. I know I've got some around a centimeter in length. If you're just used to seeing millimeter-long copepods, these giants can be a bit of a surprise.

erendon · #7 10/29/2007, 10:30 AM

Yes, I't a pod. Great thing to have in a tank or a fuge.