In the cautionary tale, massive amounts of steroid - rich chicken waste has been dumped into the water, causing the leech -
like isopods to have mutated and move on from a taste for fish tongues to a taste for... human flesh.
Even where the food is not so rich, the seafloor is not lifeless; everywhere it is churned by bristle worms and nematodes and pill - bug -
like isopods.
Not exact matches
With these soft corals we often find our macro
like Squat lobsters both hairy and common, squat shrimps, translucent anemone shrimp, nudibranchs, orangutan crabs, hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, mantis shrimps and flatworms as well as
isopods.
And while it's hard to pick a favourite from these dandy demons, I'm going to plump for the giant
isopod, who, by contrast with the zombie worms or the frilled shark, looks
like he might be willing to negotiate.