Are the pods renting?

[Kungpaoshizi]

 

[Diesel]

That's a big pod.
Lets see what Renee (@Lionfish Lair ) will say about this

 

[Mark75]

Very interesting,...seems big for a pod and I have never seen pods behave like this,...baby mantis of some kind?

 

[Wilsoni]

Amphipod?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

When ya got a big bootie, ya gotta build your own holes. That's an gammarid and they do excavate.

 

[Duke4Life]

When ya got a big bootie, ya gotta build your own holes. That's an gammarid and they do excavate.

I have a few like these myself, very interesting 2 watch, always digging or cleaning. I didn't know what they were called though.

 

[CodyRVA]

When ya got a big bootie, ya gotta build your own holes. That's an amphipod and they do excavate.

Do these guys go after zoas/palys or is that something else entirely?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Do these guys go after zoas/palys

There are some individuals rumoured to do this. For 99% of people, these are a welcome sight and some even grow cultures to seed their tanks.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Moving apodments! Heh!

 

[CodyRVA]

There are some individuals rumoured to do this. For 99% of people, these are a welcome sight and some even grow cultures to seed their tanks.

Not trying to hijack this thread I promise! I just took a video of some amphipods chowing down on my Sunny D colony at night time. I'll try to share the video, but apparently fish will do little to resolve the issue as the pods are nocturnal. I was informed a coral banded shrimp would be a better option. Any ideas? I have a mandarin, but he can only tackle the little guys, many are far to large for him to eat.

 

[JMacedo]

Are those baby pistol shrimp?

 

[beadlocked450r]

I would be more concerned with all the spaghetti worms i see in the sand bed. Not that there completly bad but defently not pleasant to look at.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

To me, that stuff is what makes the tank interesting. Hip hip hooray for biodiversity.

 

[beadlocked450r]

Double post sorry

 

[badd]

So those are the critters that we use to fish with at the beach..? dig them out of the sand..at the waters edge? always called them sea fleas...lol..

 

[Lionfish Lair]

They are of the same group, not the same critter.

 

[Tristan]

I have a lot of those big pods in my 10 gallon. I have no fish to pick them off so they grow huge.

 

[Kungpaoshizi]

 

[Sabellafella]

Lol looks like hes workin out!

 

[Lionfish Lair]

They would make some fish very very happy.