question on pods???

[brylee]

i set my tank up a couple of weeks ago. i have a yellow tang, 2 damsel's, 1 sally lightfoot crab, and a scooter blenny in there now. i am getting ready to arder a clean up crew to get the tank into shape for corals. My question today is; When i set the tank up (i bought the live rock and tank used) i saw all these ominous little creatures (dead) floating around my tank. I now know these were the amphipods that i have read posts about recently. i got a flashlight out last night and could not find any in my tank. does it take a while to get these guys back or am i screwed on pods now that they are dead and will have to buy more rock with them in it. like i said they were floaties when i put the rock in in the first place. 2 weeks in the set up right now

 

[nacl-h2o]

when the tank cycled it killed them all, they might come back if any eggs survived and weren't eaten by the animals you added. If you got a peice of LR or LS from an established tank or store you could reintroduce them. There are places in the net that sell LS activator/booster that will restart your pod population and some sites even sell amphipods. HTH

 

[waterbury guy]

Do you have a refugum to breed pods? I had a scooter in my tank which was established 6 months and was crawling with pods. He wiped them out in about 2 months time, then sadly starved to death. I could not get him to take prepared foods. If you re-introduce more pods your scooter will make quick work of them unless you have a safe haven for them like a refugum.