?pod? (Bad?) Frag critter help.

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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!

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

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