What is considered a healthy population of pods?

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Originally Posted by daniella3d

There are two type of pods, those that eats phytoplankton are the good ones you want. If you don't feed them they will not thrive and they thrive on phyto.

The other type are nasty sometimes and are the large amphipods. They look like little shrimps and they are detrivore. If they don't have enough food they will attack zoanthids, acan and even clams as last resort. Those don't care about phytoplankton and will eat anything. They can become a pest and grow out of control. They usually only come out at night with all wrasses and most fish are asleep, so they don't really have any ennemy.

I herd that a yellowtail damsel will control them better than any wrasse as they remain active quite in low light.

I ULN aquarium with nothing in the water to feed the good pods will not have much of them if any. When I feed phyto I can see an explosion of the little pods all over my glass, so it really does make a huge difference to feed them.

not all wrasses hide out in the night both my mystery and my flame wrasses are out all night , the flames dont hunt much though but the mystery does.


if you want amphipods out then a butterfly is a good choice