Zoa eating pods?

[Codeman28]

Woke up today and noticed one of my zoa's half eaten, when I say half eaten.. I mean looks like something was munching on it and decided it was full.. the side of it was missing.. thought it was odd, so I moved the frag. When I got home tonight my tanks lights were on moon light and I looked at the frag and sure as day a pod (fairly big sucker) sitting on the half eating zoa chowing down on it.

Anyone ever seen that?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Woke up today and noticed one of my zoa's half eaten, when I say half eaten.. I mean looks like something was munching on it and decided it was full.. the side of it was missing.. thought it was odd, so I moved the frag. When I got home tonight my tanks lights were on moon light and I looked at the frag and sure as day a pod (fairly big sucker) sitting on the half eating zoa chowing down on it.

Anyone ever seen that?

Was it a pod or a zoa eating nudibranch? I've never personally seen a pod eat a zoa. Interested to see others input

 

[Codeman28]

It was a pod, 99.999% sure..

 

[Codeman28]

Tank is 25g cube, I'm thinking either a mandrian or a wrasse... Any suggestions

 

[Tahoe61]

Amphipods that big are too big for a Madarin, they will not eat them.
There is little documentation that some Amphipods types eat zoanthids, but the pods are rather eating dead or dying tissue. Personally I feel (no scientific evidence) that some larger pods may become opportunistic eaters.
Interceptor will significantly knock down their numbers. A damsel would probably eat them as well.

 

[Codeman28]

Thanks for you input

 

[Jonathan Presseau]

One of my tanks is 100% Z&Ps and I have watched over the years certain amphipods munch on them. I am not sure if it is only when they are dying or not, but they definitely were eating them. I added a wrasse and he managed to eat even the big ones.

Sexy shrimp will also munch on the zoas, but I have only seen the go after the lashes and not the bodies like the amphipods do.

 

[Codeman28]

I tried a 6 line and it died within 2 days.

 

[brawthy]

You might have nudibranchs or something like a gorilla crab.