HELP HELP Something on my Clown fish

[JIvePhotography]

I just got done feeding my 2 black clown fish and on his left fin there seems to be some light grey thing on it. It looks like a grain of rice. I scooped him with my net to see if it would come off but it seems to be on there pretty good. I wan't trying too hard because I didn't want to hurt him.

Anyone have an idea of what it could be and how to get it off?

I tried to get a picture but itsnot in focus cause he kept moving.

 

[JIvePhotography]

Ok well I cupped my fish in my hand so he was laying on his right side so I could get to his left fin. I got my fingernail under it and slid it off. It felt like a little suction cup when you try to get it off a window, you have to slide it a little and then it comes on on an edge. Well I kept the little f'er and put him in a cup. He's not dead yet but I wanted to know if anyone knows what the hell it is, where it comes from and how, if any, can i kill them in my tank?

The guy is hella quick too, darting around in the cup. and like I though, he looks like a translucent rice grain, with a scales on his back like a potato bug or pill bug. He had 2 black eyes up front and what looks like blood in him cause I think hes a parasite. He also has some swimmer legs under him like a cleaner shrimp and has a flaired tail of some kind. Here's a pic.

 

[JIvePhotography]

Also I haven't see any more in my tank, I just want to know can i proactively do something to kill them if there are any?

 

[returnofsid]

Looks like maybe a parasitic Isopod.

 

[dailydriven911]

Yep a blood sucking isopod. Wow those are ugly!

 

[young_skywalker]

yeah it definitely looks like an isopod I'm surprised it came off so easily

 

[mmn_usn]

It is an Isopod... here is a link. http://www.melevsreef.com/id/cirolanid_isopod.html

melevsreef is a great place to find the small creatures ids.

 

[Curtswearing]

Using my best Crocodile Dundee imitated voice.....

"That's not an isopod.....this is an isopod"

This is a kind of isopod that lives on whales. You couldn't pay me to hold one.

 

[chadmace]

Man that thing is creepy looking.

 

[spongebob lover]

both things are ugly .
i hope you find him an id dood

 

[dnjan]

Using my best Crocodile Dundee imitated voice.....

"That's not an isopod.....this is an isopod"

This is a kind of isopod that lives on whales. You couldn't pay me to hold one.

Looks like inspiration for a new, underwater Alien movie! Does Sigourney Weaver do swimsuits ...

 

[JIvePhotography]

they're all gnarly!

 

[NaH2O]

Have you read any of the articles on isopods yet? Here are a few for you:

Cirolanid Isopods by Keith Clarke and Ron Shimek

Cirolanid Isopod Capture Techniques, Feeding Habits and Mortality Testing by Brian Plankis

Pills, Parasites, and Predators; Isopods in the Reef Aquarium by Ronald L. Shimek

 

[NaH2O]

*merged two threads into one to avoid duplicate posts

 

[burning2nd]

looks like thos things that bury them selfs on in the sand after the water sucks back in to the ocean. on the Nc beach's