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[SealFire]

I have found out that there might be a population of Iso pods living in one of my tanks.

Is there anyway I can deal with them? Some of them are quite big already, around the 1 cm long.

I have a very long lasting blue angel in the tank and I don't wish it to be attacked.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[Vanquish]

Sorry bro... the only known method without any ill effects is to starve them to death, i.e. no fish in the tank for months...

[jinhui]

is it a FOWLR tank??

if it is i think you add copper lo then everything will die except fish....

[SealFire]

Unfortunately it is a reef tank. no fish for a few months... can consider.

[Vanquish]

Unfortunately it is a reef tank. no fish for a few months... can consider.

Fishes are natural predators to other creatures in the reef tank... while going fishless can help your isopods population, it might cause a nudibranch baby boom??

[SealFire]

Haiz... Problem. But given the two, I take the lesser evil : isopods.

[Vanquish]

Haiz... Problem. But given the two, I take the lesser evil : isopods.

Do they all live in one rock or all over the place?? remove that rock lah??

[SealFire]

Saw a couple adult size when I switch on the lights in the middle of the night. My guess is that the whole tank is infested

I just hope that the fishes in the tank can fight off the parasites.

[Vanquish]

FW dip with some vigorous shaking can help too, but would kill off part of the rock and may cause a mild ammonia spike....

[SealFire]

FW dip with some vigorous shaking can help too, but would kill off part of the rock and may cause a mild ammonia spike....

Not possible to do such drastic things liao.

[BarraCuda™]

Not all isopods are parasites. They look very similar to those harmless scavenger isopods. If you see them on your fish or your fish is behaving weird then start to worry.

However, cuban hogfish is known to feed on isopods. Get a pair of them if you really want to get rid of them.

[FuEl]

Dump in a couple of Urocaridella sp. shrimps. Known predators of isopods.

[SealFire]

I have seen the similar species attacking my black trigger. So I am quite positive that the pod is a parasite. Unfortunately the little fellas are too fast for me to take a pic.

[ambystoma82]

i tink i hav e same prob also..
all other fishes die except my yellow nose goby i also duno y
mayb cus its living with my randalli shrimp???

is it possible to totally destroy all e isopods ?

[Vanquish]

i tink i hav e same prob also..
all other fishes die except my yellow nose goby i also duno y
mayb cus its living with my randalli shrimp???

is it possible to totally destroy all e isopods ?

Have you seen the isopods?? A big fish should help remove them... I think!