Pods for Mandarins

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

My sump/refugiums are usually overrun with pods and live mysis shrimp. Even my little 5g holding tank for Hawaiian volcano shrimp is crawling with pods and mysis. I usually keep balls of chaeto and other macroalgaes in each system (whether in the display or in the sump/refugiums) and so when I transfer rock and stuff from my sump/refugium into a new tank, it seeds that new tank with pods/mysis. I guess I've been very fortunate since it sounds like most reef tanks have little or no pod/mysis population. Been thinking of tearing down the little 5g but haven't mainly because of its unexpectedly high biodiversity. I don't see the Volcanos all that much but the free pods/mysis are overrunning the tank. Just left the tank alone and bam, population explosion. I guess it helps that there are no fish in there any more and the Volcanos are algae eaters.