Thanks Brad. Feeling relieved.

Hopefully your "hunt" tonight catches all of them and you can be rid of your creatures.

Well, used the fish in a vase trap technique, and caught 2 in under an hour. It seems they like the sole!
These suckers are incredibly fast swimmers and I can see how they can easily catch a ride on a fish.
They're also very ugly. Watched one under the scope for a while. One concern I have is one of the ones I caught was very tiny, so I'm scared that a female has hatched her brood pouch. However, if they are attracted to the bait, I'm hopefully I can trap and remove them.
They seem to just attach to the edges of the fish' fins, not bore into their tissue as some isopods are reported to do, so I hope I can trap them all before any damage is done to the fish.

Brad, any idea how they got in? New live rock or a fish? I've seen pics and read about them, wouldn't want them that's for sure. Any thought to feeding your fish food soaked in garlic to see if it keeps them from attatching?

Doug

Doug, they came on new rock. I thought about the garlic thing, I may give it a try.
I caught one more in the trap, and I was able to net out the female clown and remove a large blood gorged alien! I just turned the lights on, and no i-pods attached to any fish. Hopefully I get them all before they make more!!

Yikes! I hope you are able to get rid of them!

Nothing like sacrificing a sole dinner to catch some isopods, hey? :lol:

It ws on sale, and if I got them all, I can eat the sole for dinner !!

I'll bait the tank for a few nights and see if I get anymore, but none on the fish right now, so I'm sure there can't be too many in there!

I have had some small isopods in my tank that came in on the live rock, they look quite similar to cirolanid isopods but they did not go after my fish, they seem to be scavengers.

I read that a good way to trap cirolanid isopods is to get some clear plastic tubing maybe 1/2" size, put bait in the middle, then plug the ends loosely with filter floss, the isopods can get in but can't get out quickly. Never tried this method myself though.

These ones love fish, which helps I guess with the whole tapping thing. I've got a narrow neck vase tht works great so far, we'll see how hunting goes tonight.

Here is a link with pics to what I have in my tank!!

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...hreadid=541529

do isopods happen to look like white sand fleas? because i have what looks like 2 white sand flea in my lr.

Justin