Pod outbreak so bad/good it's making water look cloudy...

[Busa1340]

Yep got nervous At first than took s closer look and I have pods by the millions. I'm not over reacting they are everywhere pumps glass rocks everywhere. I added a bottle of tiger pods about 3-4 weeks ago and now looks like snow in my tank. Anyone have this happened I'm sure it's not bad but dang making it look cloudy? Lol

 

[Griff]

Would love to see some pics of this!

 

[Busa1340]

They are so tiny I would need a good camera to catch them literally looks like millions of tiny tiny white specks floating around

 

[Busa1340]

Even on little peices on algea on the glass you can see hundreds stuck to the stuff

 

[rjl45]

I had something similar. Ran a coral only tank for 4 months, and near the end the pods were out of control. First fish into the tank was a mandarin. Pods were gone in 3 days lol

 

[trido]

I'd imagine they will reach a critical mass and die back soon. I've never heard of an almost algea type bloom of them. A wrasse would be in heaven if you have one.

 

[Busa1340]

That's funny you say that @rjl45 csusr I have nothing but coral and crabs snails lol

 

[Busa1340]

I'd imagine they will reach a critical mass and die back soon. I've never heard of an almost algea type bloom of them. A wrasse would be in heaven if you have one.

That's what I thought it was at first an bacteria bloom lol

 

[Lionfish Lair]

"Tigger pods" are not white though....

 

[Busa1340]

They might be brownish they are tiny

 

[Busa1340]

Here's the best pic I could get there's hundreds congregated by my return pump on the left there just stuck moving back n forth on the acrylic

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Yes, they are pretty tiny, but we could always tell they weren't white like the other pods. Where there are so many, the color should stand out. How old is your tank?

 

[Lionfish Lair]

Cool! A picture! I'm going to blow it up and just see if we can tell.

 

[Busa1340]

Tank is about 3 months used dry right once my cycle was over took about 28 days shortly after that I added the bottle of pods and a couple easy zoas everything is good but the pods exploded

 

[Busa1340]

Rock

 

[Lionfish Lair]

That was silly of me to say that. I remember how hard it was to get pictures of them for a product bottle and I had the best conditions and a pretty good camera. I was hoping to see maybe an outline, but that would be hard in your situation.

 

[Lionfish Lair]

The reason I asked about the age of the tank, is your are right in the time frame for a nice pod explosion that pretty much happens in everyone's tank. I figured your tank was new. You traditionally don't see "Tigger" pods do what you are describing. I'm not saying it can't of course, there's no such thing as "never".

 

[Busa1340]

Yes very tiny that was iPhone pic so no better on that end but I can tell you they are pods maybe not tiger but having added them it's them maybe some others off chetoa maybe they all just had a party and made babies but they are so tiny they arnt strong enough to swim to a rock my true 150 blows them around like snow lol

 

[Busa1340]

Yes very tiny that was iPhone pic so no better on that end but I can tell you they are pods maybe not tiger but having added them it's them maybe some others off chetoa maybe they all just had a party and made babies but they are so tiny they arnt strong enough to swim to a rock my true 150 blows them around like snow ****

Gyre lol

 

[Lionfish Lair]

blows them around like snow ****

I'm trying to figure out what 4 letter word the censor filter picked up that would go with snow. LOL!

Oh I absolutely believe they are beautiful copepods, I just wouldn't want you to be disappointed should you dose with Tiggers again in the future and not get the same results.