WIth the naked eye, I would NOT say they are blue... I think that's just the lighting. They are black/white almost striped. Here's a better picture, but imagine the blue areas are white/clear. And YES... I feel I have to intervene too!
NOT saying you're right or wrong (I'm too new for that) about pod vs shrimp... only adding information so I can find resolution. I would describe the actual color as a mixture of black and white/clear, and they are probably only maybe a 1/4" long at most. The picture, for comparison, is zoomed in on a closed up polyp of a scrambled egg zoa on a frag plug. They look bigger because it's close to the glass, and I used a magnifier lens and orange filter to take the picture
Those look MUCH bigger and darker than my amphipods. These look like shrimp.
Mine are about 1/4 inch and clear. They don't bother the zoas. Is this a pest instead?
WIth the naked eye, I would NOT say they are blue... I think that's just the lighting. They are black/white almost striped. Here's a better picture, but imagine the blue areas are white/clear. And YES... I feel I have to intervene too!
OK... let's explore the feeding thought for a minute. What might these things eat, ideally. Remember, this is a tank with NO FISH, so very little feeding. I feed the corals Reef Roids every 5-7 days, and drop a 1/4 cube of mysis shrimp in 2-3/month so the snails don't starve, but that's it. Is there something I can feed these pod things so they will leave the zoas alone? Or, are there other invertebrates I could add to the tank (hermit crabs? shrimp?) that would require feedings and therefore have waste, that would feed the pods and cause them to leave the zoas alone?
Interesting... I'm only 6 months into my first reef tank, and I have NO IDEA what a "normal" amphipod/copepod looks like. Any idea what they are?
These are the size of Mysis shrimp !!!Are these pods from AquariumDepot? I have millions in my tank. I ask becuase of the size. Also a wrasse will make quick work with keeping population control in check.
The ones in my sump get to MAYBE 1/2 inch and stay clear. These are something else than the "harmless" pods I have. I had some in a fishless tank for a year too. They stay clear. I have something very different.
NO,NO,NO---amphipods eating live healthy clams, eating healthy corals. Even though I've seen it with my own eyes it doesn't happen.
Interceptor is a brand of heartworm medication. It's not an active ingredient. I believe the ingredient you're thinking of is praziquantel in some heartworm medications. I believe the product for aquariums is prazipro. I think there is discussion as to whether this kills pods. Most of the threads I saw were using prazipro for worms and other parasites. Make sure you don't put interceptor in your tank. That has other stuff in it that would probably kill everything in your tank.
LOL. Too funny. I guess the people with threads asking whether prazipro kills pods can be told "no". Haha.I dosed prazi in my display recently becasue of possible flukes. All pods are A-OK. Although I didn't really count them all
