Isopod Parasite?

[Seek&Reef]

This creature was found in a DIY bottle trap for worms. Had a piece of raw shrimp in the trap. There is no fish in the tank as it is my qt tank for the aquacultured rock from the keys.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Can you circle it? Not sure what object you are questioning

 

[Seek&Reef]

Can you circle it? Not sure what object you are questioning

 

[Nemo&Friends]

How did you make a trap for worms? I would like to have one or make one.

 

[DaJMasta]

Looks a little long for an isopod, hard to tell from the image, but are there antennae sticking out the front? I don't know of parasitic ones that have the more munnid isopod profile, and there are isopods that aren't parasitic as well. If you've got no fish the odds that an obligate parasite could survive is pretty low. I believe there are isopods that can be parasitic and still survive without a host, but I don't know any parasitic isopods of the shape pictured.

 

[Joe31415]

but are there antennae sticking out the front?

I thought it kinda looked like a shrimp.

 

[Seek&Reef]

How did you make a trap for worms? I would like to have one or make one.

It's a bottle trap but you put a straw through the lid to where the long part is inside the bottle. Then put more straws through the bottle on the sides where it touches the sand.

 

[vetteguy53081]

May be baby coral banded or harlequin shrimp

 

[shakacuz]

could be an amphipod.