the Invasion of Copepods

[AMANIQU77]

OK, copepods are good. But now, they're all over my rocks and sand. Should I be concerned? I have a maroon clown, a blue hippo tang, softies corals, polyps, shrooms, and a bubble coral.

I also have two peppermint shrimps and 4 turbo snails. Do I need to be worried about overpopulation of pods? They're like ants. Thousands of them!

 

[TheRealFF]

I don't think it's a problem. I wish i have that many pods hehe. They r scavengers and they'll keep ur water cleaner

 

[ferretttt]

Lemme have em..My mandarin needs em

 

[Brenden]

Not a problem. Their population should adjust to the food supply or you could just add a fish that loves to eat them.

 

[ryguy]

Lucky!!!

 

[Florida8]

Nope, good thing! My tank just completed a cycle little while back and I have them everyhwere too! I have to use the mag cleaner on the front glass to see clear LOL! But I leave them on the side and back for now

 

[AMANIQU77]

Thank you all. I was enjoying them when I find clusters of them a few months back. But now, I mean, I thought it was my live sand being blown from all over the sand floor. Then I looked closer and they're all over the place the point where I don't know if they're bad for corals or not. I see them caught in my quickfilter. They're all over in my Prizm Skimmer (the exit column of the skimmer) and my HOB powerfilters.

I guess I just have to keep them?

How do they maintain the water clean? They eat detrius or something?

 

[illuminum]

wow, how'd you get such a big pod population?

 

[AMANIQU77]

I really don't know what I did. Eversince I've been adding Purple Up, and keeping my Trates zero with AZ NO3, they've been all over the place. If I don't magnet-clean my front glass for three days, I see them grazing on the glass. A lot of them.

I do notice that whenever I add frags on rocks into the tank that I see them more and more too. Could I be just seeding it unexpectedly?

If it is a good thing, then maybe I am doing something good. But I dunno, I only have HOB filters. I don't have any fuge or anything like that.

 

[austinsdad]

Decent article on'm...

http://wetwebmedia.com/ca/volume_2/cav2i1/Pods/pods.htm

Scooter blenny or a mandarin might help. What sized tank and how much rock?

 

[Quil]

Man, I would be all over a Mandarin if I had that many pods.

 

[TheRealFF]

Wow i wish those pods invade my tank or even my house!

Scooter blenny or a mandarin might help.

You need a mandarin to keep ur tank clear of pods?! Man... i had trouble keeping a mandarin fed with pods

Btw. keep ur doors locked all the time cuz... there'll be ppls breaking in for ur pods 0.o

 

[hackteck]

Wow i wish those pods invade my tank or even my house!

Scooter blenny or a mandarin might help.

Btw. keep ur doors locked all the time cuz... there'll be ppls breaking in for ur pods 0.o

btw AMANIQU77 whats your address?

 

[TheRealFF]

Wow i wish those pods invade my tank or even my house!

Scooter blenny or a mandarin might help.

Btw. keep ur doors locked all the time cuz... there'll be ppls breaking in for ur pods 0.o

btw AMANIQU77 whats your address?

See what i meant? lol

 

[AMANIQU77]

hehehe.