Brine shrimp: good or bad?
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Careful with those amphipods. They're great detritivores and fish food, but they're also opportunists. They'll swarm a stressed coral, even if it's just stressed about something it can easily recover from, and large ones are known to go after healthy zoanthids. I've lost zoas that were irritated by a rock flower anemone, closed up, and were eaten overnight before they opened again- even though a rock flower anemone sting is perfectly survivable. IIRC they also eat copepods.
Any fish that can fit the amphipods in its mouth will eat them, but not all fish actively hunt them. A good candidate for cutting down on them is a circus goby, as it's a nocturnal fish and a voracious predator of tiny life. Your regular fish will likely snatch them up if you do anything to get the amphipods into midwater, though, like shaking them out of hiding. You can also set bottle traps and see if those work.
Mandarins may eat baby amphipods, but amphipods shouldn't be relied on to feed a mandarin.
Any fish that can fit the amphipods in its mouth will eat them, but not all fish actively hunt them. A good candidate for cutting down on them is a circus goby, as it's a nocturnal fish and a voracious predator of tiny life. Your regular fish will likely snatch them up if you do anything to get the amphipods into midwater, though, like shaking them out of hiding. You can also set bottle traps and see if those work.
Mandarins may eat baby amphipods, but amphipods shouldn't be relied on to feed a mandarin.
