Fresh water isopod?

[ripped tide]

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A customer brought this up to the Aviarium today. It came off her goldfish and has been "eating the fins". I am assuming it is some kind of freshwater isopod. In the video, the creature swims backwards. The "eye spots" you see are false eyes.

Anyone seen these before? Weird.

 

[cantare00]

yeah, that's fish lice... you can just peel them off your fish... Cupramine will kill them.

 

[ripped tide]

It's the first freshwater isopod I have seen! I've come across the salt water Isopods before

 

[cantare00]

When I worked at petsmart in high school we used to peel them off the big goldfish and keep them as pets lol...

 

[ripped tide]

Cool! How long did they survive with out a host.

 

[cantare00]

Well, it sounds sort of cruel but we would give them feeder fish to feed off of from time to time.

 

[bruce 1]

I just bought a tank from the lady about 2 hours ago. She told me about it.

 

[hhughes]

Ugh, fish lice creep me out. I worked at petsmart for a while and only saw them a handful of times, but every time I would move the fish to iso, take the little devils off by hand, and then spend a 15min break rocking quietly in the breakroom. *shudder*