found a flea/shrimp/crab look alike creature

[hamannbmw]

yesterday when lights off, use torach light and found one bugger hiding inbetween my red mili branches, sharing its home with 2 other acro crabs. Serach the web, since can find an ID for this creature.....this is what I have drawn, as close as possible to what I saw last night. Its body its super fat, looks like it had a very soft shell.

Can someone advise what the hell is it ?

[iantoh]

hi hamannbmw, does it look somewhat like this? or least the eyes?

[hamannbmw]

No it doesnt look like it at all. Its eyes is almost like crabs (with short protruding stem and eyeballs) and it had a very fat and round body(not flat)

[hamannbmw]

did a search again, suspect it could be some sort of anemone shrimps..

[lightningstrike]

how abt this (isopod)?

[lightningstrike]

or this (zoanthid spider)?

[FuEl]

wow..creative drawing.. Sounds like a squat lobster?

Then again squat lobsters don't hop. Maybe it's a giant amphipod.

[hamannbmw]

thanks guys for all the pic, it doesnt look like one..... thats why I'm posting here after I did numerous search in the web, what I can say is, it does looks similiar to anamone shrimps, but of slightly different shapes and colours And yes, Fuel, it does looks alittle like the squat lobster, but I cant see its claw........and the colours seems different

[iantoh]

if its in your red milli colony, does it happen to be red in colour? think youve probably already eliminated the emperor shrimp, but its the only shrimp i think of as fat, so heres an emperor shrimp pic. if it looks like an anemone shrimp, maybe in the family urocaridella?

[hamannbmw]

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the pic, I doesnt look like one. In fact i've never seen a shrimp in any LFS, forum or here in SRC that looks like what I had. I'll try to get it out one day and post a pic of that, this fellow really looks weird to me... I had posted my drawings in RC, but seems like there isnt any ID yet.......

[iantoh]

well, you can always email wetwebmedia and give bob fenner an ID test. haha. wonder if he still mans the emails there.

its cool to have these creatures anyhows. i mean, weird creatures are always welcome in my tank, and its quite fun finding something in your tank that you knew nothing of, and which has been living a secret life in your household all this while. maybe its a setlling nauplii of acro crabs that have spawned in your tank- if that were so, itd be a momentus thing seeing as its never been documented.

well, all the best ID-ing the creature.

cheers