What type of pods are these?

[wesman42]

They look almost like little gnats!

I can't wait for my Melanurus to be out of quarantine. He's gonna be fat as a peach!

 

[Crabs McJones]

Munid isopods possibly

 

[Stickboy15]

Munid isopods possibly

I would agree, definitely a larger species

 

[Muttley000]

Delicious ones if you are a wrasse! I think you would need very close up pics to get an id down to species level.

 

[Stickboy15]

or a Mandarin lol!

 

[KJ]

Gammarid Amphipod.

 

[Stickboy15]

How can you tell?

Gammarid Amphipod.

 

[KJ]

How can you tell?

https://www.google.com/search?q=gam...ved=0ahUKEwjr05HCpqDeAhWM6lMKHb-3DkkQ_AUIDigB

 

[Stickboy15]

Thank you

 

[wesman42]

Gammarid Amphipod.

The largest ones certainly look like this! I'd say the rest look like Munid. Is it possible to have multiple kinds?

 

[Stickboy15]

The largest ones certainly look like this! I'd say the rest look like Munid. Is it possible to have multiple kinds?

yes different kinds of pods can coexist with each other.

 

[KJ]

Is it possible to have multiple kinds?

Yes

 

[KJ]

Thank you

YW.

 

[wesman42]

Well that's pretty cool! For some reason I thought they'd try to eat each other or something. Would larger amphipods like this eat something like a tisbe pod?

 

[lapin]

A lot of pods eat dead stuff. Some are vegetarians and some are fish eaters.