ID critter

Flats Man · Sep 7, 2010

hope this is close enough, couldnt get a decent picture...

sand flea?
i also had a red on of these...

barbianj · Sep 7, 2010

With that great picture, I'll say amphipod. With a better one, I might say something else. Did it look like it had back legs that stick up like a crickets,

gilmour01 · Sep 7, 2010

looks like an amphipod to me as well.

Flats Man · Sep 7, 2010

barbianj said:
With that great picture, I'll say amphipod. With a better one, I might say something else. Did it look like it had back legs that stick up like a crickets,

definitely did have cricket-like legs...

killingseed2000 · Sep 7, 2010

gilmour01 said:
looks like an amphipod to me as well.

+1... am sure as well, harmless/ free food for some fish.

Flats Man · Sep 8, 2010

2 more i need help on, a crab and a slug...

Speg · Sep 8, 2010

It's a red plastic cup...bad the the environment..but way better than doing dishes.

Flats Man · Sep 8, 2010

Flats Man · Sep 8, 2010

can somone answer this for me?

barbianj · Sep 8, 2010

I'll Have to agree with Speg, it looks like a plastic cup. You'll have to get some better pictures.

barryfish · Oct 5, 2010

try a green cup so you dont get caught up in a gang war with red and blue cups

Stray32 · Oct 5, 2010

How about you guys stop being smarta$$es and help the man...

Your slug looking thing might be a stomatella snail, harmless grazer. And the crab reminds me of a Teddy Bear crab, however, in my experience, most hitchhiking crabs are bad, so I wouldn't put him back in your tank.

Engloid · Nov 5, 2010

If the crab has a lot of hair on it, it's a teddy bear crab. I have 4 of them in my 220g and don't have any problems with them. They only come out at night and although I look in often at night, I have never seen one mess with corals. They're similar to (maybe related closely) to the red mithrax crab.

I feed mine sometimes when I'm spotfeeding corals. I use Coral Frenzy in a dropper and when I start squirting it near the crabs they act like they're attacking it and then they pull particles from the water and eat like mad!!