pods eating my coral!!!

[johnnyd]

pods are eating my zao's! i have been watching they and they look like osi and amipods and there are tons of them that are huge!!! like almost a quarter inch long. ive done alot of reading and the pods are doing the eating i watch them theres no nudi eating zao etc...are they doing this because of lack of food?

 

[nwdyr]

are you kidding

 

[sly]

Are you losing zoas? If you really have that much pods then I might consider getting a mandarin goby. They are pretty cool and love to ead pods.

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by johnnyd
http:///forum/post/2687830
pods are eating my zao's! i have been watching they and they look like osi and amipods and there are tons of them that are huge!!! like almost a quarter inch long. ive done alot of reading and the pods are doing the eating i watch them theres no nudi eating zao etc...are they doing this because of lack of food?
Amphipods are most likely the big ones copepods or tigger pods prob the smaller ones, and none eat zoa's. But they can irritate a colony of zoas. More so the case is the zoas are already dead or dying and they are picking up the pieces.
But other bugs do eat them, zoa spiders, Sundial snails, some nudi branches and some asterina stars.
FYI where in RI are you... Not too many people on this site from little Rhody...

 

[shinobi9119]

Are the zoas being eaten in a dying/melting state? OR unhealthy in anyway? Like Perfect Dark said pods will "pick up the pieces" on dead or dying zoas.

 

[johnnyd]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
http:///forum/post/2688058
Amphipods are most likely the big ones copepods or tigger pods prob the smaller ones, and none eat zoa's. But they can irritate a colony of zoas. More so the case is the zoas are already dead or dying and they are picking up the pieces.
But other bugs do eat them, zoa spiders, Sundial snails, some nudi branches and some asterina stars.
FYI where in RI are you... Not too many people on this site from little Rhody...
i see them munching on the zao's at night and its mostly my green eye zoa's. some of the heads have closed up and shriviled up into a very hard tip. i have tons of adult amphipods and those are the only ones a see in my tank. they are pretty big but i just ordered a mandarian from here, and im going to make a pod home out of rubble so they breed themselves. i lived in north kingstown, but im in oregon right now for school. i think you said you lived in coventry. i miss the little rhody!

 

[perfectdark]

Originally Posted by johnnyd
http:///forum/post/2688382
i see them munching on the zao's at night and its mostly my green eye zoa's. some of the heads have closed up and shriviled up into a very hard tip. i have tons of adult amphipods and those are the only ones a see in my tank. they are pretty big but i just ordered a mandarian from here, and im going to make a pod home out of rubble so they breed themselves. i lived in north kingstown, but im in oregon right now for school. i think you said you lived in coventry. i miss the little rhody!

Ohhhh yea... I remember now. FYI Mandarins wont eat amphipods..

 

[johnnyd]

Originally Posted by PerfectDark
http:///forum/post/2688408
Ohhhh yea... I remember now. FYI Mandarins wont eat amphipods..
well there are alot of small amphipods so it wont eat those? will it only eat copepods?

 

[metweezer]

How did you get Amphipods in your tank?

 

[mr_x]

Originally Posted by metweezer
http:///forum/post/2688595
How did you get Amphipods in your tank?
mine came in on live rock/corals/macroalgae.
meanwhile, a wrasse will eat amphipods. i have a whipfin fairy that goes bonkers for pods

 

[johnnyd]

Originally Posted by metweezer
http:///forum/post/2688595
How did you get Amphipods in your tank?
idk prob from the liverock, they are huge and creepy looking.