mudplayerx
Active Member
I have a sponge filter on the intake of my skimmer 
BTW, wanted to add that even amphipods and copepods can be destructive if kept in a tank with no fish to feed on them. I have a coral-only tank, and until I got my psychedelic mandarin, the amphipods were so numerous that they started eating polyps and biting up my sea cucumber.
BTW, wanted to add that even amphipods and copepods can be destructive if kept in a tank with no fish to feed on them. I have a coral-only tank, and until I got my psychedelic mandarin, the amphipods were so numerous that they started eating polyps and biting up my sea cucumber.
mr_bill
Active Member
Originally Posted by mudplayerx
I have a sponge filter on the intake of my skimmer
BTW, wanted to add that even amphipods and copepods can be destructive if kept in a tank with no fish to feed on them. I have a coral-only tank, and until I got my psychedelic mandarin, the amphipods were so numerous that they started eating polyps and biting up my sea cucumber.
Yikes, I never planned on getting a dragonet, but this poor little scooter blenny was at this hole in the wall place in the backwoods part of town I visited a week ago, and I just had to try to save him. He was so thin and frantic in the little cube he was held in, but has since become more healthy looking and does eat the frozen foods at the same time. For some reason my pair of clowns even allow him to bunk up at night with them in their cave. I can't really get to the back two walls in my corner tank and he does a damn fine job of picking off the copepods that are going nuts back there.
I have a sponge filter on the intake of my skimmer
BTW, wanted to add that even amphipods and copepods can be destructive if kept in a tank with no fish to feed on them. I have a coral-only tank, and until I got my psychedelic mandarin, the amphipods were so numerous that they started eating polyps and biting up my sea cucumber.
Yikes, I never planned on getting a dragonet, but this poor little scooter blenny was at this hole in the wall place in the backwoods part of town I visited a week ago, and I just had to try to save him. He was so thin and frantic in the little cube he was held in, but has since become more healthy looking and does eat the frozen foods at the same time. For some reason my pair of clowns even allow him to bunk up at night with them in their cave. I can't really get to the back two walls in my corner tank and he does a damn fine job of picking off the copepods that are going nuts back there.
celacanthr
Active Member
FWIW- Isopods can get huge,I can find a few pics of isopods at least 2 feet long!!!! :scared:
revjaxson
Member
Originally Posted by mudplayerx
I have a sponge filter on the intake of my skimmer
BTW, wanted to add that even amphipods and copepods can be destructive if kept in a tank with no fish to feed on them. I have a coral-only tank, and until I got my psychedelic mandarin, the amphipods were so numerous that they started eating polyps and biting up my sea cucumber.
Hey mud, I've noticed bunches of amphipods and copepods in my mostly coral tank as well. My stock list is as follows:
2- false percs
1- fire shrimp
1- lm blenny
hermits, and snails
Any of these help control the population?
thx, rev
I have a sponge filter on the intake of my skimmer
BTW, wanted to add that even amphipods and copepods can be destructive if kept in a tank with no fish to feed on them. I have a coral-only tank, and until I got my psychedelic mandarin, the amphipods were so numerous that they started eating polyps and biting up my sea cucumber.
Hey mud, I've noticed bunches of amphipods and copepods in my mostly coral tank as well. My stock list is as follows:
2- false percs
1- fire shrimp
1- lm blenny
hermits, and snails
Any of these help control the population?
thx, rev
mudplayerx
Active Member
Don't get me wrong...amphipods and copepods are good for your tank. I wouldn't go to any lengths to eliminate them at all unless you discover a problem directly linked to them.
The only reason I needed to get some of mine is that they were running out of detritus and becoming predatory.
ps- I'm pretty sure all fish help in controlling the pod population.
The only reason I needed to get some of mine is that they were running out of detritus and becoming predatory.
ps- I'm pretty sure all fish help in controlling the pod population.
reefdweler
Member
I was wondering what those things were in my tank. I found 2 of those Cirolanid Isopod. Have any of you found away to kill these guys? I did a search and found something called Clout. It's supposed to be a very strong and effective medication for parasitic and protozoan infestations. They say it treats Ich, Hydra, leeches, Planaria, Epistylis, Trichodina, Hexamita,Tetrahy-mena, body fungus, digenetic flukes, parasitic copepods, monogenetic flukes and anchor worms. What do you guy's think about it?
celacanthr
Active Member
Does it use copper?
Also cirolanid isopods aren't copepods
Also cirolanid isopods aren't copepods
reefdweler
Member
Originally Posted by CELACANTHr
Does it use copper?
Also cirolanid isopods aren't copepods
I really don't know. I found it on one of the other Dr's place.
Does it use copper?
Also cirolanid isopods aren't copepods
I really don't know. I found it on one of the other Dr's place.
celacanthr
Active Member
Copper would be the determining factor. Also, are the isopods attached to the fish?
1journeyman
Active Member
I wouldn't medicate my tank. I especially wouldn't medicate my tank with something made to kill pods, fungus, parasites and bacteria.... that's either 1. Some toxic stuff, or 2. a total bottle of wasted money.
celacanthr
Active Member
Anywhere from a week to a few months.
reefdweler
Member
Originally Posted by sw65galma
Heres one I took from my fuge...it was huge!
Hey guy's is this one of the bad guy's.
Heres one I took from my fuge...it was huge!
Hey guy's is this one of the bad guy's.
mudplayerx
Active Member
Originally Posted by reefdweler
Hey guy's is this one of the bad guy's.
nope...thats a good one
Hey guy's is this one of the bad guy's.
nope...thats a good one
mudplayerx
Active Member
Munnopsid Isopod
mudplayerx
Active Member
Some copepods