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05-10-2012, 04:17 PM
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Yea I doubt it's pods.
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05-10-2012, 04:32 PM
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Pods are generally good in a reef tank, I have never seen pods feeding on zoa myself but just like all living things some might just become rogue predator. Make sure you examine thorougly for zoa eating nudibranch or spiders and if you are certain that the pods are the culprit then either use interceptor (vet prescribed dog de-worm pill) to nuke them or get some wrasses or mandarin fish as a biological control, I would perfer the latter but its up to you. I like my pod population to be high since they eat all the left over crap sorta like an army of miniture cuc.
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05-10-2012, 05:10 PM
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Yep, definitely amphipods. Here's a video that I found on the net of exactly what I see..
http://wn.com/Amphipod_eating_yellow_zoanthid I went to feed the fish yesterday, and the size of the one bugger that came out was huge!! Might have to go fish shopping next time im in the city...lol
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05-10-2012, 05:17 PM
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I can lend you my Copperband for a few weeks to get rid of them if you think it would help. I'm pretty sure I don't have a single amphipod left in my tank after introducing him.
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05-10-2012, 05:41 PM
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05-10-2012, 05:37 PM
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although the video shows a guy chomping on a polyp, i'd like to believe that pods will only eat something if its dying/rotting etc. I have never had any problem in my tank, i have had them clean up any sort of mess, from food to rotting stuff. Say they are eating your zoas, then maybe deter them with some alternate food source, like sinking pellets - shrimp and algae pellets are loved by those guys, just drop a few in over night and see if that helps
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07-21-2012, 07:38 PM
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i had the exact same things.. what i did is i did a fresh water dip for all my zoas, man it worked great, my zoas were not opening so i was like wtf.
i asked a guy at the local fish store what to do and he said if possible do a fresh water.. i did that and it worked great. when it happend i saw tons of these pain in the a$$ nudis.. ( the bad ones).. i thought they were the good ones.. but anyways it worked miracles
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