?pod? (Bad?) Frag critter help.

[Joeylm]

These little guys are crawling all over a clove polyp frag. I've seen them go up to the polyps and the polyps close because its annoyed, obviously. Even some of the clove polyps look like they have had a chunk bitten out of them? What are these? Are they eating my frag? TIA!

 

[IKD]

Looks like a harmless amphipod to me

 

[vetteguy53081]

amphipod, also safe and good food source for fish and coral, just a little larger than typical copepod

 

[Joeylm]

Thank you. This is what I thought but they really seemed to be bothering my polyps and attracted to them. Either way I moved the frag over to my scooter so I'm sure he thoroughly enjoyed the snack

 

[Sharkbait19]

If they are eating frags it is likely taking algae or dead tissue off. Sensitive corals can be annoyed by them walking on them but it isn’t anything harmful.