View Full Version : weird SW aquatic insect???
rottbo
03-08-2007, 7:14 PM
I do not have pics but they came in as a hitch hiker with some of my algae plants they look just like a walking stick but are about 3/4" long very thin and look exactly like walking sticks... there was also a ton of scuds but I dont care about those... I want to know what the heck those walking stick things are before I put the algae plant into my refugium
rottbo
03-08-2007, 8:21 PM
No one?????
BIGgourami
03-08-2007, 10:40 PM
do you have a pic?????
WeeNe858
03-08-2007, 10:41 PM
pictures will help better....
does it look like this? --8----- :D
Atarax
03-13-2007, 3:09 PM
i bought a handfiul of weeds for the fuge the other day and had one in there as well, no idea what it was. i just threw it in the fuge....cant hurt too much.
i hope.
ski's_reef
05-22-2007, 11:22 AM
We caught them in a collecting trip for one of my marine bio classes in college. The prof said they were a certain type of amphipod, dont remember the exact name, but they blend in with the seagrass and eat plankton. Not harmful, no need to worry.
Ski
charlesr1958
09-15-2007, 6:02 AM
Probably a Caprellid amphipod, a predator of other small critters.
http://home2.pacific.net.ph/%7Esweetyummy42/caprellid2.jpg
Chuck
spotfin
09-15-2007, 2:41 PM
skeleton shrimp
It could even be a sea spider. Really hard to say with no picks lots of buggy looking critters.
ecajoe
09-20-2007, 10:38 PM
amphipod are predatory to other pods