weird animal I cannot find

**Dayman** · November 08, 2007, 02:56 PM

I remember seeing what looked like a giant underwater roach when I was younger, at what was then the Camden Aquarium in New Jersey. Other people remember this too, but none of us remember what it was really called. What the hell was this?

**ajm317** · November 08, 2007, 03:09 PM

Was it one of these guys?

If so it was a horseshoe crab.

**Dayman** · November 08, 2007, 07:29 PM

Nah, I've seen plenty of horseshoe crabs in my life.

This was white, and looked like a 2 foot longs cockroach.

**ajm317** · November 08, 2007, 07:30 PM

Can't help you then.

**Spurius** · November 08, 2007, 09:04 PM

Isopods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopod

**Richard** · November 10, 2007, 06:09 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod might be more what he was thinking of. Though they're not really that roachlike, more like a slater (woodlouse).

**Mighty** · November 10, 2007, 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by Richard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_isopod might be more what he was thinking of. Though they're not really that roachlike, more like a slater (woodlouse).

thats an alien o_o

Oh the sea and its creatures

**Spurius** · November 10, 2007, 06:17 AM

Interesting growth phenomena:

The young isopods emerge from the marsupium as miniatures of the adults, known as manca. This is not a larval stage: the manca are fully developed, lacking only the last pair of pereopods. A brooding female is at risk of losing her eggs if she overindulges in food to the point of bloating.

Never heard of 'manca' before - must check that.