Mystery isopod

AngelLlynya

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I was doing some maintenance and feeding of enclosures today, at the end cleaning up I found this guy hanging out. Color and body shape had me thinking Cubaris red skirt, but then I saw the spots, but only has one row of three white spots down the middle while my A. Klugii montenegro & Dubronvik have three rows of spots..... so this leaves me with an unidentified isopod. Can anyone help?
 

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Looks like a klugii. Did you buy some and one got to another tank or did it come in with another cleanup crew? Very weird. It looks patternless on the top though
 

AngelLlynya

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I have two types of klugii, Montenegro and Dubronvik. Both of those have three rows of spots that go down the back. This little guy has just one row down the center and main body color is different as well. I don't know where he came from, smuggled his way with a different morph or a fluke coloring of the Morphs I have, I dunno. I have over a dozen different isopods and he doesn't match anyone. Found him on the table after I was done taking care of all my groups.
 

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I'd be willing to bet that it's a klugii. In my klugii "Montenegro" bin I would have some that had irregular patterning such as this one does.
 

AngelLlynya

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I do believe you are right, wanted to make sure something else didn't hitch a ride unexpectedly. I'm kinda hopeful more will pop up looking like this one. I've got it all alone right now so it doesn't breed into the others.
 
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