Any ideas for amphipod-eating nano fish?

[LuizW13]

I have Amphipods EVERYWHERE, i mean EVERYWHERE. I mostly see them an hour or so before lights outs. I'm looking for a fish that can control their population. Why? Because they're creeping me out. I can literally focus at any point in my tank during anytime of the day and see these little bugs walking around.

I know we have wrasses and mandarines, but...I have a 25g AIO- I was thinking of a scooter blenny or two. Some of these amphipods are too big for a scooter blenny but i figured they could eat the smaller ones before they mature.

Currently, the fish I have are a pair of clowns and a pink-streaked Wrasse.


What do you guys think?

 

[Cory]

You should leave them be. Eating your algae and leftover food.

Got a pic?

 

[old salt reefer]

They eat more than algae and left over food. Had a Acan get stung by a Duncan and the amphipods ate the wound down to the "bone" every night making it worse and worse. I use a planaria trap at night, catch quite a lot every night. Got it off Ebay for like $10.00. Just put a little reef roids in it and lay on bottom of aquarium with the little openings just above the gravel.

 

[LuizW13]

You should leave them be. Eating your algae and leftover food.

Got a pic?

I figured it would be cool to get a fish that can eat them since i have room for them.

No, I don't have a pic. I can try to snag a photo or video.

 

[Cory]

Some amphipods can be bad some are good. One of them has super long legs will eat coral. The normal variety dont.

 

[LuizW13]

Some amphipods can be bad some are good. One of them has super long legs will eat coral. The normal variety dont.

Yeah, these are the normal kind. It would be cool if i could get another fish to eat them. I really wanted a yellow corris wrasse, but my tank is a bit too small

 

[LegendaryCG]

Maybe feed your fish a little less and they will go after the pods.

 

[Hemmdog]

Pink streak should be taking care of them.

 

[old salt reefer]

I figured it would be cool to get a fish that can eat them since i have room for them.

In that case Black Barred Convict Goby--hunts them at night when they come out.

 

[LuizW13]

Pink streak should be taking care of them.

I now know why it's put on some weight lol.

In that case Black Barred Convict Goby--hunts them at night when they come out.

Never heard of it. Looks cool; i'll do some reading on it, thanks.

I'm wondering if a basslet would be a good addition, like a royal gramma. I think that fish is pretty neat.

 

[Gareth elliott]

a wounded animal of any kind is going to be a sign “eat me”. You wont see a blue leg eat a fish, until its tail hits a power head and it cant move off the sand bed.

The less complex an animal is the less advanced its immune system is. Ie duncan stinging a clown fish, has spots for a few weeks and might have a reduced appetite. But a coral, within a few hours the tissue around the sting begins to necrotize and smell like death, as the pods taste the water they are drawn in, even ones that are not carnivores.

You can try to stave this off by treating the acan in cephalexin. But the pods will decrease in number as food is taken away, or predation, and genetic diversity falls as generations pass.

 

[ArnoldosAquariums]

Scooter blenny.
Moved like a mandarin, just as quirky... I want one, but my ****** mandarin eats more pods than imaginable!

 

[LuizW13]

Scooter blenny.
Moved like a mandarin, just as quirky... I want one, but my ****** mandarin eats more pods than imaginable!

yeah, scooter blenny and royal gramma (i want one anyway) is what i was thinking. But i was just wondering what other opinions and experiences people had.

 

[Jeeperz]

Tanaka pygmy possum wrasse will destroy them, and mine was a pig for frozen and pellets

 

[ArnoldosAquariums]

yeah, scooter blenny and royal gramma (i want one anyway) is what i was thinking. But i was just wondering what other opinions and experiences people had.

I’ve never seen my gramma eat pods. Also, they get as big as yellow wrasse.

 

[LuizW13]

I’ve never seen my gramma eat pods. Also, they get as big as yellow wrasse.

Yours must be pumping some iron in between meals or something lol

 

[Nereaga]

My sixline wrasse I had kept the pods in check on my 46g. I too had them everywhere, but big ones were a snack every few seconds lol. He had a fat belly. My clowns will eat pods too. I feed every other day and I see them picking at glass on the off day.