help me identify the creature

[dons13]

Hello everybody, I need some help to identify the creature that I take from my last dive at lembeh strait.. The creature is so tiny, like a bean with yellow color and 2 spiral antenna.. And I just learn to take underwater photo..
I'm using Canon G11, F/5.6, 1/125 sec, ISO-200 and the picture was taken at Lembeh Hills Resort house reef..
Thank you..

[jlyle]

Copepod parasite. The two coiled structures are egg cases.

[scottg]

thanks Jim, Dons - very cool critter! first time I've seen anything like that. Guess you never know what will turn up in Lembeh

[dons13]

Jim, thank you for sharing your knowledge..
Scottg, it was amazing diving in lembeh.. People said that lembeh is a paradise for muck diving and macro photography, I believe that now.. With the best dive guide you can almost see everything in lembeh, unfortunately 7 days of diving is not enough..
Thanks alot guys.. I will try to post some pictures to have a comment so I can improve my self..

[jlyle]

It looks like the copepod is on a tranparent ghost goby. Can you verify?

[dons13]

No, there were no gobies near the copepod. It was on a stick coral and it was moving up and down very fast..

[scottg]

It was on a stick coral and it was moving up and down very fast..

the copepod was moving up and down? that must have been quite amazing to see...

[dons13]

Jim, you are RIGHT about the goby!!! Shame on me...
The copepod are on the transparant ghost goby...
And maybe what the dive master wanted to show me is the goby and not the copepod..
Unfortunately I don't have the picture with the full body of the goby..
I've used 10 min of air trying to get picture of the copepod and ignore the surrounding..
I wish I can do better with the picture..
I want to apologize to you and scottg...
Jim, you are the best...

[jlyle]

The goby was hard to see in your first image - very obvious with the eyes showing in the second.

[seekncritters]

*****NEATO!!!!!!****** Way cool! I can imagine how you felt, DonS, after you looked at the photos again (after Jim's post) and realized that the twirly-adorned critter was on a bigger critter, moving up and down!!

VERY COOL!!!!!!

-Dana