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It's funny. I started researching this topic when I noticed certain colonies of zoas in my Biocube 29 shrinking away. I was infuriated because they were a few of my favorite colonies. So I watched and watched with my magnifier and started catching these big amphipods chewing at the skirts of the very healthy zoas.
I come online and see many people making this claim and just as many ridiculing them and say amphipods are only eating zoas if they are already dying. Not so my friend. They ate through the healthiest happiest colony I had and I'm sure I know why.
This has happened on two occasions. First was over the holiday when I was away for a week. The second is now - during a 72 day fallow period after ich. In both cases the amphipods found themselves with less food in the tank as usual and went rogue. They clearly chew from the skirts in. I'm trying to feed the tank more and waiting desperately for February 22 to get here so my orchid Dottyback can come out of QT and into the DT to eat up those amphipods.
Anyone else experienced this?
I come online and see many people making this claim and just as many ridiculing them and say amphipods are only eating zoas if they are already dying. Not so my friend. They ate through the healthiest happiest colony I had and I'm sure I know why.
This has happened on two occasions. First was over the holiday when I was away for a week. The second is now - during a 72 day fallow period after ich. In both cases the amphipods found themselves with less food in the tank as usual and went rogue. They clearly chew from the skirts in. I'm trying to feed the tank more and waiting desperately for February 22 to get here so my orchid Dottyback can come out of QT and into the DT to eat up those amphipods.
Anyone else experienced this?