Macdaddynick1
Valuable Member
So this observation is open to a debate, i would love to know what you guys think. Here are the parameters because i know everyone will ask Ca 400 alk 9 mag 1350 , phos .01 ph 8-8.2 night-day nitrate .5 . NO other pests , that has been found in this long lasting zoa loss. I strongly suspect the culprit to be these abnormally big amphipods.
For some reason lately I've had an explosion of amphipods and I gave no attention to it , but they were not the ones I'm use to encountering these are about twice as big as the ones I've seen before(for about 2 years of having a tank) and the once I have now have a mantis shrimp like claws you can see in the video. Consequently I saw a severe decrease in the smaller type of amphipods as well as the health of my zoos . and the new kind of amphipods is much darker.this could be just my assumption but it might be from the zooms they consume . Perhaps even these amphipods are physically identical to the other ones, may be these are males. (Not the point ) after doing some research I found some people claimed that their amphipods ate their zoos and one person said that if you keep your zoos off the rock and on the frag-rack you should be absolutely fine because they are too afraid of leaving the rock . I again put no notice to it. So I've been finally playing with an idea that amphipods can be eating my zoos because I could find no ther reason like alk swings , nitrate phosphates etc. and most of all I keep a few Zoa frags on the frag rack and those multiply and grow great. As soon as I move them to the rock they shrink in 3 days and it turns into a battle for survival another Zoa colony that prospers are my blond blue eyed Bit . And the reason they do is that they are righ in the middle of the clownfish nest which they clean religiously and I never saw a single pod next to them. Rest pod the zoos are dying. Now I've had seen people scream and argue how pods can't eat zoos and that they have amphipods and those don't touch zoos (and that's a flawed thought pattern in itself but again that's not the point) but again there are different species of amphipods some are deti ores some live inside the fishes mouth, and some are about 10" long . Since I have not found any good videos on amphipods actually eating the zoos after many nights of watching them do it I decided to take a video of them feeding. And no there is no algae or detritus on those zoos . I am not going to make any definitive statements, but to help out fellow reefers and leave it open to the interpretation. Tell me your comments or thoughts and yeah these guys are about half an inch my snails are about 1.5" .
http://youtu.be/_98YjzXoCVI
For some reason lately I've had an explosion of amphipods and I gave no attention to it , but they were not the ones I'm use to encountering these are about twice as big as the ones I've seen before(for about 2 years of having a tank) and the once I have now have a mantis shrimp like claws you can see in the video. Consequently I saw a severe decrease in the smaller type of amphipods as well as the health of my zoos . and the new kind of amphipods is much darker.this could be just my assumption but it might be from the zooms they consume . Perhaps even these amphipods are physically identical to the other ones, may be these are males. (Not the point ) after doing some research I found some people claimed that their amphipods ate their zoos and one person said that if you keep your zoos off the rock and on the frag-rack you should be absolutely fine because they are too afraid of leaving the rock . I again put no notice to it. So I've been finally playing with an idea that amphipods can be eating my zoos because I could find no ther reason like alk swings , nitrate phosphates etc. and most of all I keep a few Zoa frags on the frag rack and those multiply and grow great. As soon as I move them to the rock they shrink in 3 days and it turns into a battle for survival another Zoa colony that prospers are my blond blue eyed Bit . And the reason they do is that they are righ in the middle of the clownfish nest which they clean religiously and I never saw a single pod next to them. Rest pod the zoos are dying. Now I've had seen people scream and argue how pods can't eat zoos and that they have amphipods and those don't touch zoos (and that's a flawed thought pattern in itself but again that's not the point) but again there are different species of amphipods some are deti ores some live inside the fishes mouth, and some are about 10" long . Since I have not found any good videos on amphipods actually eating the zoos after many nights of watching them do it I decided to take a video of them feeding. And no there is no algae or detritus on those zoos . I am not going to make any definitive statements, but to help out fellow reefers and leave it open to the interpretation. Tell me your comments or thoughts and yeah these guys are about half an inch my snails are about 1.5" .
http://youtu.be/_98YjzXoCVI
Last edited:
